Bojan Crnkovoić and Vedrana Mikulić Crnković held a poster presentation at the European Congress of Mathematics in Sevilla, 15-19 July, 2024. The poster title The exhibition and the games -An interdisciplinary approach to teaching and promoting mathematics.
We held a cycle of workshops titled Mathematics and Games for the participants of the program Budi++, CTK Rijeka.
Precisely, we held 5 workshops, from 1.7.2024. until 5.7.2024. and some titles were: Mathematical games and puzzles, Assemble and play sudoku, Sudoku in Scratch, Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm, and Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm in Scratch.
We are happy to present the book chapter by Crnković, B., Mikulić Crnković, V., Traunkar, I. (2024):The Exhibition, Games and Virtual Reality – Technologies in Math Education. In: Volarić, T., Crnokić, B., Vasić, D. (eds) Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Application. MoStart 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62058-4_1.
In the presented work, we described the two variants of the [ai] explore! game, developed within the SciMaG project.
During the last couple of months, we conducted a threshold concept discussion in Rijeka, Croatia.
The aim is to identify threshold concepts in mathematics, informatics, and physics. We organized several meetings with teachers of these subjects, presented the SciMaG project, and discussed the threshold concepts.
A manifestation on the occasion of the International Day of Light – Ode to Light was held in the Astronomical Centre Rijeka from the 16th until the 18th of May, 2024. As a part of this manifestation, we held a workshop Mathematical games and puzzles.
More information and a program of the manifestation can be found here.
As a part of the MoStart 2024 conference, two workshops with InAMath activities for teachers were held: Art and Technology in Math classroom (B.Crnković, V. Mikulić Crnković) and Preparing educative 3D models (I. Marić i M. Zovko).
Bojan Crnković and Vedrana Mikulić Crnković had a presentation entitled “The Exhibition, Games and Virtual reality – Technologies in Math Education” on 2nd International Conference on Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Applications, MoStart, 24-26 April 2024, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Within the SciMaG project, the current activity is the research of threshold concepts in STEM fields. Partner universities conducted research on the project with the support of partner schools. The first part of the research in Serbia was jointly organized by team members of the University of Novi Sad and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium, on April 18, 2024. This phase included teachers from primary and secondary schools in Novi Sad and its surroundings. The research was carried out in the school premises, in the form of workshops in STEM areas, gathering over 40 teachers who gave their professional input and, through discussion, enabled important conclusions and recommendations for the further course of the research and the project itself. In the following period, other steps in the research will follow!
On April 23rd, 2024 in Rijeka, Croatia, we conducted activities Prepare and play sudoku for small ones and the big ones. Also, we are very happy that we designed an activity in which students learn to program in Scratch with the help of the [ai] explore game, and we conducted this activity with 5th-grade students!
On Thursday, 18.4.2024. we visited Elementary school Čavle, Croatia and conducted three newly developed SciMaG games: Treasure Hunt in the Pi rythm, and Prepare and play Sudoku for 5th and 7th graders.
