math in nature e-journal

MATHEMATICS IN NATURE It is an eTwinning Project. PARTNER PROJECT MEMBERS Burcu YILDIRIM COUNTRİES Ahmet Salih BEKAR Senem ÇELİK Nazmiye YILDIRIM Bulgaristan İdil Tuğçe AKALIN Dimitra BLE Hırvatistan Evangelia KOUFOU Galina PRAMATAROVA Türkiye ΧΡΥΣΟΥΛΑ ΜΠΙΜΠΑΣΗ ΣΟΦΙΑ ΡΟΥΜΕΛΙΩΤΗ Yunanistan Tahire ANILGAN Şükriye ÇEVİK Vesnica CİZMAR Christina NİTİ Deniz Seçil ATMAN Ioanna KOUFOU Aslıhan ALACA Sinanur AKSOY

WITH OUR PROJECT, Bringing the education out of the classroom in the pre-school period, enabling children to connect with nature and their environment, and in parallel with this connection, to make the child feel the mathematics in nature and in his daily life; We aim to make mathematics popular in basic education and integrate it with life by putting the game at the center.

In February Events Worms We started our activities by observing our environment, noticing what is happening in nature and most importantly feeling nature. The February events were prepared jointly by Senem ÇELİK from Denizli/Provincial Service Union Kindergarten and Ahmet Salih BEKAR from Samsun/Terme Kindergarten.

We noticed how the rings on the worms were arranged one after the other, in an order. The same rings are also found on tree trunks in nature; we talked about how we can find out how old the tree is thanks to those rings. \"Children who meet and define patterns in the pre-school period will understand the language of mathematics more easily in the future.\" The children formed a pattern with their families using materials from nature. In nature, we made graphic works using flexible parts in nature. By using Chatterpix, one of the Web 2.0 tools, we both made the process fun and included technology in the teaching process. We aimed to reinforce the gains through families, which is another pillar of education; We organized family involvement events.

SPIRALS IN CONES The grains in the pine cone spiral out from a fixed point at the bottom of the cone to another fixed point at the top of the cone. The angle of these curves is called the golden ratio. Tahire ANILGAN, who works at Demirtaş Primary School in Antalya, planned our activities in March in order to make children feel the golden ratio in nature and order.

We studied pine trees and cones with the children. We painted the cones so that they could observe the spirals and we witnessed the exciting \"aaaaaa!\" sounds. Cones were the leading actor of our learning process in March. We tried to find the cones hidden in the mud we prepared by touching them; We did math work by creating graphs with the cones we found. Cones hidden in the mud were also a very good sensory activity and served to support the holistic development of children.

Leaves and Symmetry The same species of plants have the same leaf/branch arrangement no matter where they are in the world. When the magnificent arrangement of the leaves of the plants and the branches of the trees is noticed, none of the leaves we see overshadows the other; all the leaves will be lined up in such a way that they benefit from the maximum amount of sunlight and rainwater.

“Symmetry is the basis of many phenomena. Mathematics, geometry; Symmetry is the basis of visual arts such as painting and sculpture. Symmetry studies support many areas, from the development of visual perception to the development of hand- eye coordination in children, to the sense of aesthetics. With the Wordwall web 2.0 tool, a wide variety of interactive games such as matching, wheel, memory cards, puzzles can be prepared. We can use these tools in the classroom with children or we can plan them as family participation. In our March activities, we used the matching work we prepared on Wordwall as family participation.

BEES MATHEMATICS Bees build their honeycombs in a hexagonal shape to fully and minimally use the available space. Bees immediately learn the best route to save energy and time, and to be less tired while visiting the flowers in the region. The way the bees build their honeycombs and use the most suitable route is a very good example that tells us about mathematics in nature. We became bees, we collected pollen from flowers. We can produce honey in our hive by carrying pollen with ice mold, water, paint with which we can color the water, and dropper. A bee mask or wing that children can use will make the activity even more fun.

Aslıhan ALACA, who works at Samsun-Terme Kindergarten, planned the Bees' Mathematics learning process, which we implemented in April. Mathematical skills such as measurement with non-standard measurement tools, rhythmic counting, comparison; It has been further enriched with the wheel prepared with Wheel of Names, one of the web 2.0 tools. MATHEMATICIAN ANTS In May, we discussed Ants and Mathematics. We learned that there are many ant species that we have not heard of before. We examined pictures of different species of ants. We were very surprised to see that the honey ant was carrying honey on its back. We were very excited to learn new information.

We examined the nests in which the ants lived and observed how they left the nest and returned to the nest carrying food on their backs. We thought that ants had a very good sense of place and direction and knew mathematics well. WE CREATED AN ANT HOUSING. We even built an anthill and waited for the ants to come to the nest. We loved ants very much and we learned that they can carry food that is much heavier than themselves, no matter how small they are.

On the street, in the park, on the trunk of a tree... Ants in every moment of our lives; recognizing their place in the ecosystem; carrying out activities in this direction made the ants visible in the eyes of children. While walking, he suddenly stopped and said, \"Teacher, here is the ant! He must be going home.” His words motivated us about the continuity of the activities. Sinanur AKSOY from Terme - Atatürk Primary School planned the final activity plan of our project.

We are teachers who met with the Mathematics in Nature project under the umbrella of eTwinning. Seeing children in classrooms with a sky- roofed roof is one of the most important elements that motivate us professionally. Our project, which we carried out as Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey and Greece, gave us the opportunity to work together in different languages and within different education systems. The effort to understand each other and the careful communication process in online meetings helped to build a bridge between us. The results of the pre-test and post- test conducted within the project show that nature can be a classroom for children to gain mathematical skills and develop positive attitudes towards mathematics. mathinnature.etwinning