The project Guided by: STANISLAVA KUMELIENË, a mathematics teacher-methodologist at Krađuona Basic School in Utena
The project drawn up by: the eighth-class pupils
The concept:
Europe from the perspective of mathematics
In the school the pupils have to learn a number of different subjects that are nevertheless interrelated. Mathematics is renowned as queen of sciences. This project highlighted that various aspects of a state such as area, population, cities, birth rate etc. may be presented in mathematical expression. Different European states were compared and their place in the general context was defined by employing elements of statistics (variation range, charts, frequency distribution, sample size, mean). We can see the place of Lithuania among other states in terms of every parameter.
Objectives of the project:
When working within the framework of this project, the pupils gained detail knowledge on European States, compared their areas, observed the difference between the largest and the smallest state (mathematically, it is a sample size), ranged the states by population, learned information on the population of capitals and largest cities, density of population, governing form, GNP per inhabitant, woodenness of states, birth-rate and mortality, lifespan. They also learned the statistical number of cars per 1000 inhabitants, and the output of electrical energy. The pupils classified the population by illiteracy, urbanisation, economical activity, and demonstrated the results in bar charts or circle charts, and selected an adequate background for every page.
The pupils gathered a lot of information by means of the Internet, improved their skills in mastering the computer, acquired more self-confidence, experienced the joy at discovering, learned to find a necessary information in different sources (Internet, books, atlases etc.). The project was put into shape by means of Microsoft PowerPoint and subsequently printed on paper.
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