Learning Diary - Eva Sánchez González by Eva Sanchez Gonzalez https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20 Learning Diary for the course "Moving to Maths 2.0" en-us 2016-11-23 00:50:32 UTC 2026-01-13 19:48:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/62406118/f508565190dc2d71f32ea61a51ff0767/fotoperfil_esg.jpg Module 1.1. Why is Maths unpopular? esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139493810 1.- What was or is your students' motivation and engagement level?
To pass their exams and get good marks so they can choose their future studies.
2.- Do they believe in their ability to improve?
If they practise, they realise how they improve. But if they don't work daily, they feel frustrated.
3.- Have you had students voice their dislike of Maths to you?
Yes, a lot of them dislike Math and they tell me.
4.-What were their justifications?
They believe that Maths are extremely difficult and they will not be able to understand most of the concepts.
5.-Why do you think many students are frustrated by Maths?
They have not experienced how to be sucessfull in Maths. They expect to do Maths exercises right at once.]]> 2016-11-23 00:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139493810 About Me esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139494233 My name is Eva Sánchez González and I'm from Málaga, a city placed at the south of Spain, in Andalusia. 
I used to be an ICT consultant at a telecommunication company. It was an amazing job in which I travelled a lot, met a lot of people and learnt a great amount of new things in each project I was involved in. 

When my son was born, I decided it was time for a change. I now work as a teacher at a Secondary School in Málaga, teaching Maths, Industrial Technoloy and ICT to 16-18 year olds. 

I think teaching is an amazing profession too and there are a lot of similarities between being an ICT consultant and a teacher: you have to deal with people, you met a lot of new people, and you can pose yourself new challenges as often as you like. Definitely, I find exciting being a teacher.
]]> 2016-11-23 00:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139494233 My teaching context esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139494273 I work as a teacher in different subjects (Maths, Industrial Technologies and ICT). My pupils are between 16 and 18 and they are in the two academic years before they go to the university or choose a specialized technical study . 

You find students with very different habilities for this subjects. So it's very important and difficult to make them all follow the explanations, understand the concepts, and adquire the habilities needed in each of these subjetcts.

Young people prefer audiovisual material better than a textbook. So I think tablets can help me to deliver this goal.

In my school, we have wifi connection for teachers and at Primary Level, they have 30 tablets that primary teachers use in their classrooms when they need them. The other academic levels don't have any tablets.
]]> 2016-11-23 00:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139494273 Module 1.3. Personalising learning esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139497458 1.- Do you have access to the type of data/information that is provided by the computer games in the video? Not really.

2.-Would you want this information and how would you use it? Yes, it would be very useful to understand how each pupil learn and what are the main difficulties for each one.

3.- What kind of activities do your students like? Easy exercises. Making videos or using Internet.

4.-What communities do they come from?  They are young people between 15 and 18 years old.

5.-What are topics they are interested in?  Fashion, music, new technical solutions to human needs, etc.

6.-What always works, what never works with them?  What always works: Making an interesting introduction to the unit or topic, how can we use this knowledge in real life, ...  What never works: ask them to do an effort if the task is not motivating, feel well with their mistakes, ...

7.-And how do you take all these aspects into account in your lesson planning? Designning interesting learning activities, defining the aim of each learning activity.]]> 2016-11-23 01:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139497458 Module 1.2. Moving to Maths 2.0 esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139497533 Mind map: 5 different actions/ideas that I would like to do in my Maths classroom,... ]]> 2016-11-23 01:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139497533 Module 1.5. Self assesment rubric esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139498918 2016-11-23 01:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139498918 Module 2.1. Applying Maths skills to a real-world problem esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139499292 ejemlo de proyecto de aplicación]]> 2016-11-23 02:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139499292 Module 2.2. How I would make it mor real? esangon https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139694915 It seems esier if they apply the concept to something they can see or touch.

Learning probability, they could guess the probability to find a ball under a black glass when they have to choose between three or four possibilities. Try and try again, take note of the results and compare it with the theorical calculation. And then see what happens when you know previouly something about the result (i.e. someone looked under one of the glasses before and there were nothing inside.]]> 2016-11-24 06:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/esangon/LD_EvaSanchez_Maths20/wish/139694915