Happy New Year!

Best wishes from Sassi of Matera!!!

Our ponies

We had great fun trying to solve the Pony Puzzle.
Look at the strange horses we have found!

Sam Loyd wrote that people all over the world laughed for such a long time looking at the grotesque shapes of horses obtained. More than a billion copies of the puzzle were sold.

Second Autumn Riddle: solution

Let's reveal the solution of the second Autumn Riddle. The proposed quiz was:
After printing the picture, carefully cut the six pieces out, and then reassemble them into the best possible picture of a horse!


So, what is the solution?

It is a famous puzzle, the Pony puzzle, created by Sam Loyd (1841-1911). The six black pieces are only a trick and a trap. As a matter of fact, the pieces must be placed in order to form a white horse inside, as the picture shows.
If you want to have an idea of Loyd's huge production, you can consult the Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, published by his son in 1914 and available free in the Internet in its unabridged version.

Our last video

Our last collaborative video is ready. It concerns the numbers properties discovered by Pythagoreans. Just like last time, the script is based on the text that our Italian partners created. We would like to help them very much.
The video can be seen here.

New videos on the Pythagorean school

Liceo Duni’s students from Matera have published two videos on Pythagora and his school. Filming the videos was a wonderful experience. The students worked hard in all the phases. You could take a look to the slideshow of the backstage and to the story of the shooting on our magazine!

Final Flashmeeting

Our final flashmeeting was a moment to remember. The students  and teachers from Liceo Classico Duni, Matera, and School no. 195, Bucharest, presented themselves and their town, shared their thoughts and feelings about the project, exchanged souvenirs, played a "fraction hunt" game and sang together. Laughter, images, friendship and songs over half a continent. Then, it was time to say good-bye to our project, but not to our partners.

Thank you and keep in touch!

 

Our project's badge

We wanted to have the badges made and sent to you for the final videochat, but unfortunately it was not possible on such short notice, so we are only offering them as an online souvenir from our team. Hopefully, we will get to meet sometime in the future wearing them!

Finalists again!

Our project is a finalist for the Stockholm Challenge! Congratulations!

New audiofiles!

After solving the audiogames, the Italian students have recorded some riddles for their friends in Bucharest.
Here are some photos taken during the audiofiles recording. Matera students wish you a great time listening to them!

Jog the Web

"JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites.
Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique."
Here is a path about Pythagoras:

Pythagoras and Rene Descartes

Online survey

Click here to take our Online Survey

Great news!

Our project is in the Top 50 at the Elearning Awards!Congratulations and thank you!

HERE'S THE SECOND AUTUMN RIDDLE

Creative thinking is the foundation of Maths and Maths is the greatest game invented by man. Try to be a mould-breaker and solve this puzzle: After printing the picture, carefully cut the six pieces out, and then reassemble them into the best possible picture of a horse!

New videos on Pythagoras

Here are our students during the video shootings.

They remind us of the Parthenon frieze, don't they?

The videos are .... coming soon!

We have the solution!!!

Riddle

This is our first riddle this autumn: fill in the blanks with as many Math signs you need to make all these lines true:
1 1 1=6;
2 2 2=6;
3 3 3=6
4 4 4=6;
5 5 5=6;
6 6 6=6
7 7 7=6;
8 8 8=6;
9 9 9=6
10 10 10=6

Wonderful news!

The school-year stats with great news: our project has been awarded the eTwinning Quality Label by the Italian and the Romanian NSS.

Way to go!

Testing new tools

Testing new tools for next year. See this at http://www.tagxedo.com/

Click and listen:

The pocket guide to Matera

Come and see our city. Look at the presentation!

The pocket guide to Matera

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Working at the audiogames

Solving the problems and working at the audiofiles was a nice challenge. We worked hard, but it was also real fun!

Watching the Moebius video

Here are two photos of us watching the Moebius video!
Thank you friends for the wonderful idea! To be continued ...

Sum of the first whole numbers video-Behind the scenes

Some holiday fun for you

Who could be here?

Today's Lesson

Our Book!

A Quizz!

Maths in Wonderl@nd » Make A Quiz

Gauss formula with Geogebra

Here is a Geogebra illustration for Gauss formula. Take a look!

The Moebius Video - Making of

Wallwisher

Here is a wall for the final impressions, comments and wishes about our projects. Please feel free to use it. I will try to put a link in the magazine too for our students to reach it easily. You can find the wall here.

An Invitation

This is a short presentation of our town made by two of my students, as a surprise for me. Take it as an invitation, we would be honoured to have you as guests anytime!

Junior eTwinning Ambassadors

In the photo there are the students of “Duni” awarded with the title of Junior eTwinning Ambassadors! The prize-giving ceremony took place during the regional eTwinning seminar of Basilicata on 28th April 2010. The students showed the work made by the twinned schools in the project “Maths in Wonderl@nd”.
Other photos of the students:

Happy Easter

And now let’s have fun!

Happy Easter

Eggs are everywhere!

Happy Easter!

Our best wishes and a video for you.
Happy Easter from Bucharest!

Pi Day (3)

Pi Day (2)

Pi Day activities were great! We will start working on the collaborative video on Monday.
It was so nice to think that it was a shared activity, and that we will be able to compare what we did!
We are looking forward to the next similar events!

Pi Day

You can see one of our Pi Day activities here. It's Archimede's method for approximating Pi, by using the areas of an inscribed and a circumscribed polygon. We hope you enjoy it.

3 more logo

by Veronica


by Nicola


by Emanuela

The 16 dots

Here is a similar problem with your 9 dots one: draw 16 dots in a square and connect them by 6 lines without raising the pen from the paper!
Solution with Geogebra here.

Magazine puzzle

We solved the puzzle
The answer is WONDERLAND!!!!

The first logo from Matera

by Leo

Magazine Puzzle

In the magazine, there is a Mathematical puzzle made just for you. Answer each question, use the key and give us the answer here!
We'll be waiting! :)

Our First Logo Proposals