Testimonies

CEIP Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente

Location: Manises, Spain / Number of students: 200
Grades using Innovamat: 1st, 3rd and 5th grade/ Using Innovamat since: 2021

CEIP Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente is a public school located in the Valencian town of Manises. Since its inception, the school has been characterized by offering a quality education based on values such as respect, coexistence and inclusion. For some time now, they have been working with the Innovamat curriculum in their classrooms, and we wanted to hear their testimony and the teachers’ experience regarding the changes they have observed.

New activities in the classroom

Blanca Andreu, a 5^th grade teacher, was one of the many teachers who experienced firsthand how Innovamat is transforming the way students learn mathematics. According to her, “What Innovamat has helped me with as a teacher is providing my students with different paths and making them feel confident reaching the solution”.

This is not just a personal opinion; Vanesa Antolín, the school principal, has also noticed a big difference in classroom activities since the implementation of Innovamat. “What I value most are the relationships that exist right now in the classroom between students and teachers, and also among the students themselves.

The students have gone from being passive to active in the classroom. They have a voice, they have a vote, they are heard. And I believe that individual success is leading on to team success, and the other way around.”

Manipulatives: a basis for learning mathematics

The materials and resources offered by Innovamat have caused in change in the way we learn mathematics. Laura Galván, a 3^rd grade teacher, has noticed huge motivation in her students thanks to learning with the manipulatives offered by the curriculum: “When it comes to learning, I notice that they are very motivated because we work in a very manipulative way. And I think it has also greatly increased their mathematical reasoning when it comes to working because they understand the mathematical operations, they know why it is done that way.”

For her part, Mari Tere Peña, 2^ndgrade teacher, has seen a great evolution in the students and the connection of different learning processes, thanks to the resources.

“I’ve been with them since first grade. And we have seen this evolution in the students who started from zero, and we have seen that little by little they have been acquiring a series of strategies. And now, in second grade, we are seeing how they relate them to each other and connect different lessons, and they realize it too,” the teacher told us.

Innovamat is changing the way students learn mathematics by giving them tools to solve problems in different ways and encouraging critical thinking. As Vanesa Antolín says, “more than solutions, they need to ask themselves questions, and they have questions every day in the classroom when we work with the curriculum”.

The story of CEIP Felix with Innovamat

The teachers say that, for some years now, the law has been proposing working with mathematics in a competency-based way. So they decided to start use the curriculum because they saw that it could respond to this need and it helped them understand what it means to work in a competency-based way. The principal, Vanesa, comments: “A few years ago, we were considering that we needed to take a step forward in mathematics, to have a universal curriculum that would take us all down the same path.

[…] And we found the solution with Innovamat when they presented the project and we saw that it was exactly what we were looking for”.

Since its implementation, Innovamat has transformed the way mathematics is taught and learned at school. Blanca emphasizes that “I have been able to experience mathematics from a different perspective, and now I can say that I am not a language-person instead of a numbers-person, but that I am an Innovamat-person“. Likewise, as teachers, they have taken Innovamat as a personal challenge that has made them grow as teachers and as a team.

However, change is not always easy. Mari Tere admits that at first she was afraid, but after a year and a half working with Innovamat, she believes that “it is easy, simple and that any teacher can implement it in the classroom without any issues“. She also points out that the material provided by Innovamat, such as the educational guide and the virtual meetings, have been a great help in implementing the project. As Vanesa concludes:

“The solution that Innovamat has given us has been very positive, we are very happy.”

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CEIP Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente

New activities in the classroom

Manipulatives: a basis for learning mathematics

The story of CEIP Felix with Innovamat

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