Erasmus + days 2020 were marked within Grigore Antipa College of Science Brasov through an online event in which the project activities were disseminated. The meeting was attended by teachers, students, parents, representatives of the local community and the School Inspectorate of Brașov County, the project coordinator, Inmaculada Illan, from Spain, with a part of the Spanish students who were involved in the project. Also, two mobile stands were placed in the entrance hall of the school where students, teacher staff, visitors can consult the final products of the project and take a presentation folder with materials about the project. USBs containing the final products are also shared.

 Article published in a county newspaper („Transilvania Expres”)

The article details the impact that the project has on students, teachers, parents and at last but not at least on the local community.

 Romanian dissemination leaflet

Greek school network

 The Greek School Network connects and supports: 14,204 schools, 132 educational units, 1,101 other units (eg libraries ) and the entire educational and learning community (274,333 accounts).

In that network  the results of the Erasmus + project  have been published

      https://www.sch.gr/drasi-erasmus-maths-is-around-us/

Spanish dissemination leaflet

 

The inphografic (improved version)

Our magazine (final version)

A mag created with Madmagz.

Article about the project "Maths is around us" , puBLished in the scientific magazine " i-teacher"

An article about the Erasmus+ project , "Maths is around us"  is puplished on the 15th of May,  in the 22 th issue of the scientific magazine i-teacher ( http://i-teacher.gr), after blind peer reviewed by  scientific committe. The i-teacher magazine is an online magazine for ICT  and their applications in education

The article titled  "The dynamics of Erasmus + projects in the implementation of interdisciplinary practices in virtual and natural learning environments" is in the link  http://i-teacher.gr/files/22o_teyxos_i_teacher_5_2020.pdf    in the pages 428-436. The article includes:

a. the pedagogical theories in which the erasmus+ project was based,
b.the methodology,
c. the objectives,
d. the activities,
e. the results of the project.


Αλεξίου, Λ., & Ομαλιανάκης, Κ. (2020). H δυναμική των Erasmus+ έργων στην υλοποίηση διεπιστημονικών πρακτικών σε εικονικά και φυσικά περιβάλλοντα μάθησης.  i-teacher, 22,  428-436.  Προσπελάστηκε στις 15-5-20 από:  http://i-teacher.gr/files/22o_teyxos_i_teacher_5_2020.pdf .

Album of mathcitymap-and archeological sights

                                           
                                                 http://www.viewpure.com/L83rV0BmhKI

Learning-teaching activity in Spain was cancelled

Sadly, the planned learning teaching activity in Spain was cancelled caused by Covid-19.

We were so shocked that we weren't able to write anything in this blog.

Little by little the situation is getting better and this is the moment of sharing our feelings.

Everything was prepared on twinspace, students had written their ciphered messages, there were instructions about doing the spreadsheets. The math trail was ready. Teachers and students too

Spanish team has prepared a pack for our visitors (see photos),  we have designed a logo for the meeting, we have planned to go to the city hall, to do a math trail, to visit Toledo and Murcia. Time will say if we will be able to do this later or not.

All spanish students were enthusiastic about our visitors and our planned activities, you can see the mathematical ones on our twinspace

The contibution of the Greek students to the 3rd Learning-Teaching- Training activity

Greet students support erasmus+ project and continue the work, preparing the activities of the 3rd and last mobility. The previous days wrote their texts about signhificant Greek monuments and today they have been coded their texts. In spain will be decoded  and all students  will find out the mysterious hidden Greek monuments and they will remember the  moments they lived in Hellas.

The Romanian team had a new meeting with cryptography. The afinn cipher was the star of this meeting. Thus, the participating students  in the project completed the encryption of the text on the Prejmer Fortress, a monument listed in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List since 1999.

Greek school network

the mobility in Rethymno in the bigest educational site of the  Greek  ministry of education 

https://www.sch.gr/episkepsi-mathiton-kai-kathigiton-apo-tin-roumania-kai-tin-ispania-sto-3o-gel-rethymnou-sta-plaisia-programmatos-erasmus/  

Preparing for the 3rd transnational activities

The Romanian students are preparing with interest for the third learning / teaching and training activity within the ERASMUS + project "Maths is around us" which will take place at the end of March in Hellin-Spain.

   

This week they discovered the mysteries of cryptology learning to encrypt using three famous codes: Caesar's figure, affine number and Vigenere's figure.

Greek newspapers

The mobility in rethymno in  the "Κρητική επιθεώρηση" newspaper

and in the " Ρεθεμνιώτικα νέα" newspaper

The mobility in Rethymno in the web newspapers:

1)
http://rethnea.gr/%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%82-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%82-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CE%BA%CE%B1/  

2)

https://www.goodnet.gr/news-item/episkepsi-mathiton-kai-kathigiton-apo-tin-roumania-kai-tin-ispania-sto-3o-gel-rethumnou-sta-plaisia-programmatos-erasmus.html  

3) https://rethemnosnews.gr/2020/02/%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%88%CE%B7-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%84%CE%B7/

Brașov newspaper

An article about the second transnational meeting for learning/teaching/training activities which took place in Rethymno, Greece appeared in „Transilvania Expres” local newspaper, On February 11, 2020.

Reissue of the magazine

The reissue of the magazine containing the artistic constructions is  ΗΕRE

A mag created with Madmagz.

Camera obscura workshop, in the webpage of the Research Science Center of physics of Rethymno

One of the main workshops of the project, which was runned in  Reseach Science Center of physics of Rethymno, is publiced in the official page of the Research center


                           http://ekfe.reth.sch.gr/wordpress/?p=1353

Second mobility on the official site and Facebook of ‘Grigore Antipa’ College of Science Brasov

In this link you can find the information we have published on the official site of ‘Grigore Antipa’ College of Science Brasov:

http://csantipa.ro/stiri/Intalnire%20Creta.pdf

You also can read what we posted on our official Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Colegiul-de-Stiinte-Grigore-Antipa-Bra%C8%99ov-125162204813371/posts/?ref=page_internal

Rethymno newspapers

1) On 27-1-20 the online newspaper "goodnet" wrote about our erasmus+ project  and the visit to the town hall

https://www.goodnet.gr/news-item/mathites-apo-tin-ispania-ti-roumania-kai-to-rethumno-upodechthike-o-giorgos-marinakis.html


2) On 28-1-20 the newspaper  "κρητική επιθεώρηση" wrote about our erasmus+ project  and the visit to the town hall

3) On 31-1-20 the online local newspaper "goodnet" wrote about the  Erasmus + project that 3rd High school of Rethymno runs and about our visit to the "EKΦΕ" Educational Research Center of Physics.

https://www.goodnet.gr/news-item/ekfe-enas-faros-epistimis-pou-dinei-othisi-stin-ergastiriaki-epimorfosi.html



 4)  On 1-2-20 the local newspaper "κρητική επιθεώρηση" wrote about the  Erasmus + project that 3rd High school of Rethymno runs and about our visit to the "EKΦΕ" Educational Research Center of Physics.

press release

The official   municipal's page of Rethymno mentions  our Erasmus+   project and the visit to the town hall, while the 2nd mobility took place. In all the following official pages is mentioned the Erasmus+ project we run


https://www.rethymno.gr/information-services/press-release/dt-27-01-2020.html

https://cretedoc.gr/rethymno-mathites-apo-ispania-kai-roymania-episkefthikan-to-dimarcheio/

Second mobility in Spanish bilingual blog and in Spanish Twitter

In this link you can find the information we have published in the bilingualblog of the IES Izpisúa Belmonte:
https://belmonteontherock.blogspot.com/2020/02/second-erasmus-mobility-retimo.html

You also can read what we wrote in Twitter:

2nd Learning-Teaching and Training activity-Summary

                                           

The second Learning-Teaching and training activities of the Erasmus + ‘Maths is around us’ project took place at 3^rd High school of Rethymno on January  27-30, 2020. The project was carried out in collaboration with IES Izpisua Belmonte Hellin from Spain and ‘Grigore Antipa’ College of Science Brasov from Romania.

All activities scheduled for the meeting have been successfully conducted and some of them had the purpose of preparing the next  trans-national mobility. Art and mathematics was one of the strong points of the meeting. Students divided into 5 groups (2 Greek students, 1 Spanish student, 1 Romanian student) worked hard and made shapes and tessellations based on tessellations of great artistic Escher with mathematical app Geogebra.  Their visual constructions which was made in the environment of Geogebra were printed and dawned on blouses with different  colors.

In order to promote the connection between formal and non-formal learning, students from the three partner countries visited the Research center of Physics the Center for Plasma Physics & Laser and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Crete. At the  Research center of Physics Education under the guidance of the  director  of the center  and his team constructed a kind of camera obscure. The students designed optical devices used in painting and photography to help visualize  the geometry of natural objects, with material they find in their everyday life. At the Physics and Plasma Center students got acquainted with the ancient Greek lyre and were informed  on modern techniques for studying harmonic frequencies and how sound is influenced by the geometry and materials of the musical instrument. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Crete, students participated in a two-hour interdisciplinary workshop. Students and teachers discovered in a playful way how the visual arts meet with history and mathematics.  They interacted with exhibits, experimented with materials, texture, expressed their feelings arising from the museum's paintings, made their artistic masterpieces, gaining experience of communicative experiential learning.

One other exciting outdoor activity which  connects the culture of Rethymno, the maths and the mobile devices was the mathcitymap activity. Students explored main historic points in  Rethymno with a mathematical perspective using the  mathcitymap app, through their mobile phones. Students followed a route which was published in mathcitymap site and solved mathematical puzzles and problems in 5 significant historic places in Rethymno old town. The app provided them hits and feedback.

During Romanian’s and Spanish’s  stay in Rethymnon, they were warmly welcomed by the mayor of Rethymno offering them souvenir gifts. Students had the opportunity to visit remarkable archaeological and historical sites such as the Monastery of Arkadi, the Museum of Eleftherna, the three Virgins in the fountains of Argyroupolis, a traditional workshop which makes traditional greek treats, as well as the archaeological site of Knossos, and the archaeological museum of Hrakleion.  They  got acquainted with Greek  cultural history, which is one of the main goals of the program.

Students and teaching staff from the three partnering European schools will again have the opportunity to exchange and develop new ideas and practices in the third and final mobility projected by the program, which will take place at the end of March, in Hellin of Spain.

4th day in rethymno

Today the all day was dedicated to archeological sites and monuments. Romanian and Spanish had the chance to become familiar with the history and the culture of Rethymno and Hrakleion city. We had a tour to the old town of Rethymno, and the fortezza castle.

                           

Then the Romanian and Spanish students visited Knossos, the archeological museum of Hrakleion and they had a  tour in Hrakleion city

All students wrote their impressions from that mobility . The moment we had to say goodbye was too   emotional

                                            

3rd day in Rethymno

 First we gathered in the computer lab and the students made shapes based on tesselletions of Escher with mathematical app Geogebra.  A student named Ainoa guided the rest of the students to make the constructions in Geogebra environment 

                     

Then all togheter  draw the shapes in blouses with different  colors

                       

After constructions started the math walk in the city . Students explored main historic points in the Rethymno with a mathematical perspective using the  mathcitymap app through their mobile phones

             

      

             

In the evening we participated in an program at the museum of temporary art. Teachers and students discovered in a playful way how the visual arts meet the history and mathematics. They interacted with exhibits, experimented with materials, texture, expressed their feelings arising from the museum's paintings. They also made their artistic masterpieces

                      

We also visited a tratitional lab which makes sweets like "backlava". We tasted greek  treats.