7th OCTOBER - DAY 6

Maths Workshops and Danish Lessons

On monday 7^th we had a very busy day.

We were at school for 5 hours, until somebody had to go to the city centre for shopping and buy souvenirs, while others remained at school to play some football or basketball.

The morning was planned like this: the first, the third and the fourth hours were used by us to create our own Street arts using prospective and applying our mathematical knowledge and skills.

During these three hours we had, firstly, an explanation by the Danish Maths teacher Line on how to do proper calculations and the way our work should be done. All of us took a while to understand everything, then with Canarini's help and her simple italian explanation all requests were clearer. Then we started working in different groups.

Some group thought about creating boxes projections, bins or also number.

We spent our first hour thinking about how to put in practise our projects.

On the third hour, we started to work on papers and to complete our calculations, then we drew our subjects on the ground with chalks or on bigger papers on tables. Some groups had some issues passing from the theoretical part to the practical one.

Then almost all groups finished their works during the fourth hour, to perfect drawings.

In the second and in the fifth hours, instead, we had to observe some lessons in different classes: we had very different courses to follow: Psychology, Social Science, various languages, Maths, etc...

Students during lessons were always using their computers, while the teacher was introducing his/her lessons. We could see very silent classes, maybe for boredom or, more probably, for paying more attention to the lessons, and very calm and relaxed teachers, even when someone was using his smartphone. The teacher simply took it and put it on her desk, without any argument.

These lessons were very flexible and quite light (Maybe because we can't understand danish).

Then, when courses finished, everybody just went out and greeted the teacher.

In the evening, we had our last dinner with our host families and someone said goodbye to them because they had to go to work early. 

[Alessandro Petrosino e Riccardo Vezzani di 4CSA, Agnese Martini e Maddalena Bedogni di 4B art]

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