A team consisting of the students from Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Mathematics Education carried out the “Mathematics Fits Home” project within the scope of the 2020-2021 Spring Semester Community Service Course. Our students Fatmagül Ergün, Ayçanur Bıçak, Feyza Gökçe Kuzucu, Çağrı Kocabaş and Derya İrge worked under the consultancy of Asst. Prof. Esra Yıldız for the project
The project aimed to ensure equality in education for the children of families with low socioeconomic status by providing online mathematics course support to students from low-income families who could not go to school due to the Covid-19 pandemic and helping them benefit from educational technologies through web2.0 tools shared with the students. Within the scope of the project which focuses on mathematics, online lessons were organized for 5th to 8th-grade students and trial test lesson for 8th-graders students. Thus, the project helped the students make up for the mathematics classes they had missed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the students were supported to prepare for the LGS exams.
32 students from 5th to 8th grade benefited from the learning opportunity offered with the project, which started on March 15, 2021 and ended on May 6, 2021. In the questionnaire shared with the students at the end of the project, the majority of the students stated that they understood the lessons and could receive training support from the teacher when necessary.
