Colourful numbers

Last meeting of Erasmus project “Colourful Numbers”: Turkey

In the end of May had started the last international meeting of our project in Istanbul in Turkey. This meeting was quite special. Meeting was organized by Gulbaba Zeynep Yildirim Yatili Bolge Ortaokulu in Kilis, but the earthquake in February had changed our plans.

Due the security reasons our meeting was moved to Istanbul. We hadn’t got the base of hosting school and we was in one of the biggest cities in Europe. This was not problem for us and the programme of the meeting could be realised, as we planned, but with some differences and improvisation.

First day our programme had started with opening ceremony and presentation of the programme. Then we have continued with sightseeing tour in Istanbul, where we had visited for example Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia or the area of Balat with nice colourful houses.

Second day we had moved to the Adalar Island, where we realized the project activities. In the project was planned the sport games and the geolocation city game. Because the Istanbul is big city, we had moved this activity to this small island. In the morning we had realised geolocation game to visit all the interesting places at the island in shortest time and in the afternoon, we had got some competitions in cycling and swimming.

On Wednesday our programme continued by culture programme – visiting of Basilica Cisterns – magic ancient place, which could be known from Dan Brown Inferno or James Bond movie, shopping in Bazaar and in the evening the closing ceremony of our project.

Thursday was working day too. In the morning we have visited Topkapi palace, but in the afternoon was presentation of our activities, which we had prepared to Turkey – activity about health and lifestyle, where students had prepared their data and statistics about food, teachers had presented their activities for classes with topics “Math and everyday life” and “Math and other subjects” and at the end of the day was the last project meeting of coordinators with evaluation of the project and checking the tasks.

Friday was the last day of this meeting. Teams was leaving during the day and there was time for shopping and enjoying last hours in Istanbul.

The project is finishing now and we hope for other future cooperation.

Mobility in Nowa Sarzyna, Poland

The fourth mobility of our project took place in Nowa Sarzyna, Poland, from 26th September to 30th September 2022. Students and teachers from the Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, and Turkey visited the School Complex in Nowa Sarzyna.

Erasmus day 1
The first day of the mobility in Poland started with the greeting of the representatives of the partner schools and the presentation of the programme. This day was also devoted to the celebration of the European Day of Languages so all students from partner schools were invited to participate in language activities, games and trivia. Students also competed in an activity called Maths Escape Room. All the participants also took part in a meeting with the Polish Minister of Education. After the meeting at school, students and teachers went to Leżajsk where they visited the Bernardines monastery and the old market square.

Erasmus day 2
On the second day of the mobility students and teachers went to the former capital of Poland, Krakow. It is a city which is has been honoured with the UNESCO City of Literature title. Students and teachers visited the most popular sights of the city, e.g. the Wawel Castle, Vistula boulevards, Collegium Maius, the Main Square of the Old Town of Kraków, the, Saint Mary’s Basilica (Kościół Mariacki), Sukiennice (the Cloth Hall), and the Kosciuszko Mound.

Erasmus day 3
On the third day of the mobility students and teachers went on a trip to the town of Zamość, visited the Roztocze National Park and the town of Zwierzyniec. Students and teachers could trace examples of maths in nature while strolling in the park located upon the Wieprz river. They visited St. John Nepomucen’s church (also known as “the church on an island”), and the Education and Museum Centre of the Roztocze National Park in Zwierzyniec. Next, they visited the town of Zamość which is famous for the Zamość Fortress and unique 16th-century architecture of the Old Town, called the “pearl of the Renaissance”, inscribed on the list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Erasmus day 4
Thursday was filled with school activities. First, students took part in demonstrative lessons in an IT classroom (making geometric shapes in Scratch and 3D printing) and a robotics laboratory. There was also a game with elements of mathematics, with the use of maps and an electronic system of checkpoints ‘SportIdent’. The last school activity that day was the first part of the presentations of films and multimedia presentations created by students.
Before the meeting in Poland, each partner school had a task which involved creating four multimedia presentations or videos. The presentations included such topics as: „Mathematics and History”, “Mathematics in Architecture”, “Famous Mathematician from my country”, “Mathematician famous worldwide”.
In the afternoon, there was a trip to the capital of the Podkarpacie voivodship, the city of Rzeszów. Students and teachers visited the Market Square and some of the most popular landmarks of the city. In the evening, there was an official dinner for teachers and students with the ceremony of delivery of certificates.

Erasmus day 5
The last day of the mobility was devoted to school activities. There was the second part of the presentations of films and multimedia presentations created by students. All the teachers from partner schools had a meeting during which they summarized the mobility and made plans for the next one. The representatives of the partner schools departed from Nowa Sarzyna throughout the day.

After two trips in previous days project has continue by 4th day, which was working day in the secondary school in Otelu Rosu. Our teams has presented art exhibituon and played their logical quizzes, they have prepared charitative market with greeting cards, bookmarks and geometrical toys and attend mathematical lesson prepared by the romanian team. In the evening was closing ceremony for students and teachers. We would like to thank to romanian teachers, students amd their parents for preparing this nice evening.

On third day of our project we have moved to Timisoara, where we have visited banatean museum, National opera and the historical city centre.

Second day of project meeting in Romania continued by the excursion in the Hunedoara city with beatiful Corvinion castle. In the afternoon our teams moved to Sarmisegutuza, where they visited Roman archeological site, and the marble factory.

Today has started third international meeting of Erasmus+ project Colourful numbers. Actual meeting is hosted by Scoala Gimnaziala nr.1 - Otelu Rosu. At the program of the first day was the international symposium is THE BENEFITS OF CREATIVITY AND ACTIVE LEARNING, where teachers have presented methods of teaching, in which they improve creativity of students, students played prepared games about shapes and geometry and in the afternoon all teams have visited the city Otelu Rosu.

Third day of the meeting in Lanciano started by the visit of national park Gran Sasso and the excursion in the valley of river Tirino. In the afternoon we have visited beautiful old village Santo Stefano de Sessanio.

Second day of the project was the day of school trip. We have visited “San Giovanni in Venere” Abbey in Fossacesia, “trabocco” near San Vito marina and the town Ortona.

On monday has started the second international meeting of Erasmus+ project Colourful numbers in Lanciano (Italy). This meeting is aimed to math board games, card games and memory games. International teams has prepared presentations about math curiosities too.

DAY 4: Thursday 30th September 2021

Czech project meeting will move tommorow to the last day. Today we have visited Pustevny with Wallachian walkway and statue of Radegast. In the evening we had closing ceremony with handing over certificates - with our hosts, students and parents.

DAY 3: Wednesday29th September 2021

Third day of our international meeting has continued in Brno. We have visited science centre Vida with interesting exhibition and workshop. In the afternoon we had sightseeing tour in Brno and the evening was in sign of farewell with our Turkish friends.

DAY 2: Tuesday 28th September 2021

Despite the national holiday in Czech Republic our meeting has continued by visiting ZOO a zámek Zlín - Lešná (where we have tried to find interesting numbers from nature) and the sightseeing tour in Zlín (prepared by Czech students).