Mathematics through competences for lower secondary school

The workshop methodology interweaves didactic and practical mediation, enables diversified, transversal planning and stimulates cooperation and sharing, encouraging an active research attitude to knowledge based on curiosity and challenge.

The result is a school with the aim of rendering its pupils competent, organising learning situations so that   they can all observe, research, hypothesise, plan, experiment, discuss, justify their choices, negotiate with others and build new meanings, in order to independently and responsibly resolve real-life tasks.

The specific characteristics of lower secondary school, with different teachers for various subjects, sometimes seems to be an obstacle to its full application, which requires a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to learning proposals.

The authors demonstrate how it is possible to offer innovative planning methods where the competences to be acquired become the result of practice, reflection and internalisation of the learning process experimented, in line with MUIR national guidelines.

Mathematics through competences for lower secondary school offers teachers complete, flexible teaching programmes for the mathematics curriculum for all three years, with detailed instructions, analysis and insights.