Mathematicians in the museum

Matematičari u muzeju interdisciplinarni je projekt Arheološkog Muzeja u Splitu i Prirodoslovno– matematičkog fakulteta u Splitu koji obuhvaća muzejsko-edukativne radionice namijenjene učenicima od 4. do 8. razreda osnovne škole i osmišljene u skladu s kurikulumom nastavnog predmeta matematike. Svaka radionica započinje arheološkim i povijesnim pričama o određenoj muzejskoj znamenitosti koja zatim upućuje na nekog slavnog matematičara i njegov matematički problem kojeg treba istražiti. Kroz suradničko učenje i manipuliranje didaktičkim materijalima cilj radionica je demistificirati muzejsku instituciju i matematiku kao znanost te ukazati na životnu primjenu matematike i njenu korelaciju s raznim područjima. Primjenom znanstvenih metoda na matematičke zadatke i suvremenih principa nastave učenici razbijaju predrasude o matematici kroz igru te stvaraju vječne uspomene u muzeju.Mathematicians in the museum is an interdisciplinary project of the Archaeological Museum Split and the Faculty of Science of the University in Split which consists of a museum-educational workshops intended for students from the fourth to the eighth grade of the primary school and designed in accordance with the curriculum provided for the subject of the mathematics in Croatia. Every workshop starts with archaeological and historical stories about a specific museum artifact which leads to one famous mathematician and his mathematical inquiry and afterward needs to be examined by the students themselves. By the manipulation of the didactical material and the collaboration of everybody, the goal of the workshops to demystify a museum as the institution and math itself as the science is made possible, and in that way is emphasized the real life application of math and its correlation with various other areas of human science. Using the scientific methods and contemporary principles of teaching on the mathematical assignments the students manage to break the prejudice about math throughout the play while creating the everlasting memories in the museum