IMPROVING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE IN MATHEMATICS WITH THE MATHE PROJECT’S DIGITAL TOOLS

• Main Authors: Colibaba, Anca, Gheorghiu, Irina, Ursa, Ovidiu, Antoniță, Carmen, Colibaba, Anais
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Distance learning / e-learning; Higher Education; ICT Information and Communications Technologies; Pedagogy
• ISSN: 2066-026X; 2066-8821
• DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-20-226

The article is a study based on MathE (Improve Math Skills in Higher Education) project, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education. The project, coordinated by Pixel (Italy) in cooperation with the project applicant and scientific coordinator, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal), is being implemented within a partnership made up of technical universities and educational centres from Ireland, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania. The project starts from students’ low skills in mathematics. It aims to enhance the quality of teaching Mathematics through digital technologies and to improve teachers’ pedagogies and assessment methods with a view to overcoming students’ gaps in Mathematics. To this end, the partnership has suggested effective solutions so that teachers can prepare students for a world where mathematics finds application in diverse fields. The project helps teachers of mathematics to identify their students’ gaps and provides them with the necessary resources and innovative assessment methods to meet their students’ needs. The paper presents the project’s main objectives, activities and outputs. It gives insights into the project’s main digital outputs: the self-need assessment and the final assessment. The former toolkit allows students to carry out a self-evaluation of their knowledge on selected mathematics topicswhile the latter allows teachers to elaborate final assessments for their students on the topics they would like to evaluate. Students can apply when a final assessment is available and also use materials from the collection of video lessons on Math topics in order to improve their knowledge.