Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 76

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Students in the 9th grade have discovered
translations by a vector (even homothetios and
rotations) in the paintings of Victor Vasarely,
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Herbert Douglas, Sonia
Delaunay; they developed tessellations using
translations and rotations, created practical
problems in "Applications of linear function in real
life"
(https://issuu.com/mihagit/docs/aplicatii_ale_functi
ei_liniare), they made modelling using the
linear/quadratic function in "Linear functions in
modelling real objects" and "Square functions in
modelling real objects, they discovered and created
parabolas
https://issuu.com/mihagit/docs/application_of_squ
are_function_in_r in "String art&Parabola"
(GeoGebrabooks), Modeling Square Systems with
Geogebra.
The most interesting and spectacular activity was
that students created animated art, using the
translation and rotation of graphs of trigonometric
and quadratic functions in "Arts through functions"
- GeoGebraBook and issuu publication. In the
twinspace, there is a special page of math materials
organized by math topics: “Work ordered by math
topics”.
https://issuu.com/mihagit/docs/homothety__rotatio
n_and_symmetry_in
https://issuu.com/mihagit/docs/art_through_the_tri
gonometric_and_s
https://issuu.com/mihagit/docs/string_art___parab
ola
Teachers communicated throughout the project via
email, Skype, Forum. They worked together to
succeed in integrating into the curriculum the
proposed activities. It was very interesting that
pupils from the 5th to the 9th grade were involved
in this project. I can say (and the rich activities of
the project prove it) that art unites us all through
GeoGebra, pupils of different ages and teachers
from 6 very active countries (Germany, Latvia,
Italy, France, Spain, Romania). We managed to
work very well in the joint GeoGebra space created.
All the materials have been shared in eTwinning
space and in the MathArtRealLife space on the
GeoGebra platform. Students responded to the
work tasks received from the teacher in their school
as well as those received from the other schools. In
the TwinSpace there is a special page dedicated to
communication and collaboration (which contains 8
subpages) illustrating the collaboration that I will
detail in the next paragraph.
The students presented themselves in the Padlet on
the page "Students' introduction". In the sub-page
"Task for other partners" (from "Communication
ans collaboration") work tasks have been launched
for partners. The Romanian pupils responded to the
tasks given by their partners in Germany, Italy,
France and each other. Students from 6 schools
participated in the "Funny faces" contest for
beginners or advanced students and the logo
contest. On the occasion of winter holidays,
students built congratulations on GeoGebra. On
Easter holidays the students worked in GeoGebra
eggs (with animations) or flowers. Most of the
students' works are public on the GeoGebra
platform in the "MathArtRealLife" space
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