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Project Details

Name
MA²ThE-TE-AMO
MAking MAThEmatics TEAchers MObile

Code
129543-CP-1-2006-1 -IT-COMENIUS-C21

Action/type
COMENIUS-C21

Project span
01.10.2006
01.10.2009



Project Coordinator

Name
CAFRE Centro di Ateneo di Formazione e Ricerca Educativa
Università di Pisa

Contact person
Franco FAVILLI

Email
favilli@dm.unipi.it



Project Partners

(AT) Universität Wien

(CZ) Univerzita Karlova v Praze

(DK) University College Lillebælt, Skårup Seminarium

(FR) Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de l'Académie de Créteil



  
Introduction to the questionnaires
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Introduction to the questionnaires



MA²ThE TE AMO Project

MA²ThE TE AMO – MAking MAThEmatics TEAchers Mobile is an EC Socrates/Comenius 2.1 (Training of School Education Staff) project. The project span is 1/10/2006 – 1/10/2009.
The partner institutions are:
  • Centro di Ateneo di Formazione e Ricerca Educativa – Università di Pisa (Italy) – coordinator
  • Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic)
  • Skårup Seminarium (Denmark)
  • Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Créteil (France)
  • Universität Wien (Austria)
The project focuses on furthering mathematics teachers’ mobility by enhancing their confidence in their foreign language competence and thereby reducing their reluctance to be mobile. It takes into account the shortage of mathematics teachers in western countries, “universality” of school mathematics curricula and standards, and the required language and communicative competences necessary for reading and discussing mathematics in a foreign language.
The aim of the project is to prove, by the piloting of the same didactic units in the five partner countries, that it is not difficult to teach mathematics abroad provided that teachers acquire the necessary intercultural communicative competence.
A preliminary analysis has shown the current situation to be:
  • in some countries (FR, IT), there is very little or no interaction between teachers of maths and languages;
  • in other countries (AT, CZ, DK) student teachers can obtain a joint degree in maths [taught in the mother tongue] and in a foreign language;
  • however, nowhere are the student teachers educated to use the foreign language as the medium of instruction in maths.
The two questionnaires aim at getting more precise and complete information on the present situation concerning the above issues. One questionnaire is addressed to mathematics/language in-service teachers and student teachers in secondary schools, the other to mathematics/language teacher trainers.
 

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