Testimonies

Jacint Verdaguer

Location: El Prat de Llobregat, Spain / Number of students: 441
Grades using Innovamat: Early Years and Elementary/ Using Innovamat since: 2020

A few months ago, Ana Moscardó, principal of the Jacint Verdaguer school, sent us a voice message to share some great news: ‘The results of the school’s basic math competencies are well above the average for Catalonia’. With this headline, we suggested visiting Ana’s school to tell us a little more about the results and how she thought Innovamat had helped in that regard.

Jacint Verdaguer and the results of the basic competencies tests

Ana has seen firsthand the impact Innovamat had on her students’ basic competencies test results. “When we did the test last year, we were surprised that the type of activities presented were very similar to what we had been working on with Innovamat throughout the year.” This indicates that students’ preparation for the basic competencies tests was in line with the content and skills they are expected to master.

“Our students achieved good results in the basic competencies tests.” In fact, we are above average for schools in our bracket in Catalonia.” The test results, important for being one of the key moments in elementary, can be attributed to several factors, according to Ana.

Innovamat’s manipulative-based curriculum has helped students “understand math and solve problems in many different ways. Our students are very used to solving any kind of problem, whether it was specifically worked in the classroom or not.”
The Jacint Verdaguer teachers have been committed to the curriculum and have seen the need to “work in another way”.

Jacint Verdaguer’s story with Innovamat

Jacint Verdaguer is located in Prat de Llobregat. It is defined as a school that “empowers all lessons, values and attitudes that will make our students critical, competent and responsible adults”. Perhaps it was because of this shared vision of education that we understood each other perfectly in 2019, when we first met Ana.

This is the third year that Jacint Verdaguer has used Innovamat, which is present in its math classrooms from PreK 1 to 6^th grade. The change in students’ motivation for mathematics has been key in deciding to continue placing our trust in Innovamat year after year.

According to Ana, “It’s one of the things that surprised us: seeing math become one of the students’ favorite areas. The fact that it is a manipulative-based curriculum, and seeing the students begin to understand mathematics differently… was very motivating for them.”

However, the beginning was not without doubts and concerns from some teachers. They underwent a process of adaptation and training, familiarizing themselves with the curriculum through the teacher training resources available in the Classroom Manager. “as the years progress, we are working better and better with the curriculum.” The spiral sequencing of the curriculum was also a vote of confidence, “some content is repeated and sometimes you have to leave it and take it up later.”

These initial doubts quickly dissolved once they ‘saw students consolidate mathematical knowledge.’

“There is no single path to get to a result. This is very important for students.”

Ana Moscardó, principal of Jacint Verdaguer

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Jacint Verdaguer and the results of the basic competencies tests

Jacint Verdaguer’s story with Innovamat

“There is no single path to get to a result. This is very important for students.”

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