Discover the Unknown in Mathematics (DITUM) is a project where students and their teachers make mathematics seen and taught in a new light. The focus is to encourage teachers to teach more motivating way by aid of students. The goal is to decrease gender-based underachievement, create new peer-to-peer learning methods and give a perspective how maths act in everyday life. There is sometimes low self-esteem among students when studying maths which relates to other learning difficulties too. By giving new ideas and opportunities for participants, institutions, teachers and the most important students, we are creating a toolkit to help reduce early school leaving. Our project works as a company so there is entrepreneurship as a tool, but also a career choice for some of the students. To use of the entrepreneurship is a result from other European Union funded Erasmus+ project where good practises have been formed. DITUM puts a very valuable school subject, available every partner and beyond, maths as a spearhead for new type of learning. The students will use their everyday tools and platforms to create new learning methods, for example maths in comics, plays, songs etc. Then we will use existing specialists from worklife to explain how a school subject from class room turns into a fascinating career choice. Those not seeking an academic career in other institutions our project gives ideas how to calculate salary, taxes, invest in a stock market and how to run your own business. Finally, all our products are marketed and given to any willing to use them. There will be eTwinning for visitors, EU database and open sources such as youtube available to all. Our group consists of five partners. The main coordinator is a medium-sized school from Finland. Spain and Germany are big schools with lots of different age groups. Bulgaria and Italy are classical schools, and the bulgarian is specialized in math studies. All the partners have experience from previous projects, and all have certain special added value for the project. Therefore we expect good and ambitious results. In DITUM, we have already checked the existing curriculum, which is almost similar in each country. Our idea is to change local curriculum into a student-friendly direction. When Europe is struggling with political problems, this kind of cooperation gives positive image in local, regional and also in national level what advantages Erasmus+ program can offer. All the partners have good contact for dissemination and our dissemination plan is carefully planned to have impact for example in national maths teacher union (Finland). Without funding there is no chance to start project like this one, but after funding the results are alive and free for all.
Discover the Unknown in Mathematics (DITUM) was a project where students and their teachers made mathematics seen and taught in a new light. The focus was to encourage teachers to teach in a more motivating way by aid of students. The goal was to decrease gender-based underachievement, create new peer-to-peer learning methods and give a perspective how maths act in everyday life. There is sometimes low self-esteem among students when studying maths which relates to other learning difficulties too. By giving new ideas and opportunities for participants, institutions, teachers and the most important students, we created a toolkit to help reduce early school leaving. Our project worked as a company so there was entrepreneurship as a tool, but also a career choice for some of the students. The use of the entrepreneurship was a result from other European Union funded Erasmus+ project where good practises had been formed. DITUM put a very valuable school subject as a spearhead for new type of learning, available to every partner and beyond. The students used their everyday tools and platforms to create new learning methods, for example maths in everyday problem-solving, social studies and artworks. We also used existing specialists from worklife to explain how a school subject from classroom turns into a fascinating career choice. For those not seeking an academic career in other institutions, our project gave ideas how mathematics is an essential part in economy and in running business, as well as a tool in many professions. Finally, at the end of the project all our products are given to any willing to use them. There is eTwinning for visitors, EU database and open sources such as Youtube available to all. Our group consisted of five partners. The main coordinator was a medium-sized school in Finland. Spain and Germany are big schools with lots of different age groups. Bulgaria and Italy are classical schools, and the Bulgarian is specialized in math studies. All the partners have had experience from previous projects, and all have certain special added value for the project. Therefore we expected good and ambitious results, which were then reached, according to the evaluation of teachers involved. In DITUM, we had checked the existing curriculum, which is almost similar in each country. Our idea was to change local curriculum into a student-friendly direction. When Europe is struggling with political problems, this kind of cooperation gives positive image in local, regional and also in national level of what advantages Erasmus+ program can offer. All the partners have good contact for dissemination, and our dissemination plan is carefully planned to have impact for example in national maths teacher union (Finland). Without funding there is no chance to start project like this one, but after funding the results are alive and free for all.