21. February 2022

Portugals second MCM partner school

Only a few weeks after the presentation of our first MCM partner school in Portugal, we can already welcome another school in this great program! The “Escola EB1 do Cálvario” has successfully passed the application process and is now also an official MCM partner school.

The process was initiated at the Portuguese elementary school by three student teachers who came into contact with MathCityMap during their studies.

Again, the package with the measuring instruments and the official partner school badge is on its way to the school and we are looking forward to more applications from Portugal, but of course also from all other MCM countries.

You can read a brief report from one of the student teachers about the application process further down in this article, and all other information about the partner school program can be found in the article about the first MCM partner school.

 


 

We are a group of pre-service teachers doing our internship at Escola EB1 do Calvário, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. We developed an interest for MCM during our master’s course and decided to implement three trails with our students in the schoolyard. For the 1st graders we created two thematic trails related to the contents they were addressing in their lessons at the time, the number space to 10 and geometry, as for the 3rd graders we created a more diversified trail involving different mathematical topics.

 

 

Testing out the trails was a successful activity that was done with both groups of students during math class. They were able to apply what they were learning, were motivated to get out of the classroom and collaborate using technology (tablets). The students had no difficulty using the app and recognizing the location of the objects, with the exception of the first graders who needed the help of the supervising teacher to read the tasks. For us as pre-service teachers, it was a very rewarding experience to perceive the positive impact of the MCM activity with the students and to have the opportunity to design tasks in a real-world context, making them more meaningful to the students than in the traditional classroom setting where they previously spent too much time. We will certainly continue to use MCM!

 

Date: 21. February 2022 | By: Philipp Larmann | Category:  | No Comments

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