Welcome

Nowadays competence in mathematics is addressed as one of the most important issue for self-fulfilment at both social and personal level and numeracy skills are considered as one of the priorities for educational cooperation at EU level. It is a common pattern in classroom communication that teaching mathematics is characterized by the use of the textbook and by teachers dominating the conversation by asking the questions and evaluating the students. This makes students passive and afraid listeners. However, there is a great consensus that cooperation creates learning and that productive classrooms build on students’ participation and thinking.

The project is the continuation of the previous project “TIM - Theatre in Mathematics” that aimed to face the main obstacles in the way of teaching and learning mathematics at EU level. TIM^2 refines and spreads the TIM Methodology, enhancing the focus on the possibility of strengthening the teachers competences to empower mathematical skills in a larger number of students. The methodological refinement would be done by the project partners with the supervision of a highly qualified Advisory board. The methodology would be validated thanks to the evaluation carried out by the Italian National Research Council. The spread of the methodology would be done thanks to a massive training of teachers and student teachers (at least 600) in the 4 countries involved. Almost 30 trainers will be trained to train teachers and they will continue this work after the end of the project. All the methodological materials and tools will be available at EU level in a digital platform where teachers could share their lessons,and ways of teaching mathematics through the Tim methodology.