Maths to Play Continues to Win

Published on Global Junior Challenge (http://2017.gjc.it)

04/05/2008 - 07:29

The Maths to play [1] Project, created by the liceo classico Duni [2] in Matera (Italy) and the Lycée Classique in Diekirch (Luxembourg), proposes a new, non-traditional approach to mathematics: students learn not only by playing, but also by reflecting on the deeper meaning of this discipline. How?

In an interview [3], teacher and project coordinator Maria Teresa Asprella, provides a concrete example. During the past months, the students of the Liceo Duni have been working on the biographies of the great Italian mathematicians to discover that …

Listen to the interview:

Project Website [4]

The motivation given at the presentation of the Special President of the Republic Award for projects by Italian schools: the project represents a didactic answer to the challenge of promoting technical and scientific knowledge amongst students of the European Union, promoting international twinnings and providing on-line fun didactic activities.

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Source URL: http://2017.gjc.it/en/news/maths-play-continues-win

Links
[1] http://2017.gjc.it/en/../../../../../../../../2006/it/show.php%3Fid%3D501
[2] http://www.classicoduni.it/
[3] http://www.mondodigitale.org/audio/intervista-maria-teresa-asprella
[4] http://www2.edu.fi/magazinefactory/magazines/mathstoplay/
[5] http://2017.gjc.it/en/javascript%3Ahistory.go%28-1%29