Abstract:

This paper is focused on the results of the application of an innovative teaching and learning approach to study mathematics and science for secondary school students.

The proposed method aims to use the Arts in a well-structured methodology inspired by Singapore’s approach divided into three phases (concrete, pictorial and abstract), usually applied for studying mathematics.

In this educational setting, students have started to familiarize with scientific concepts through the object manipulation, during the first phase, named "concrete", with the use of digital tools or digital laboratory, such as Geogebra.

Afterwards, in a second phase, pictorial, students have learnt to recognize the studied mathematics and science formula in several art-works. This has allowed them to facilitate the connection between the scientific concepts, generally considered too abstract, and their application to the real world. The final aim has been to reach scientific knowledge, based on the abstract representations. The involved students have reached this third phase, "abstract" or "representational", by producing their art-works based on the studied mathematics and science concept.

This has allowed them to become active co-constructors and participatory co-producers of their learning process.

In this context, this paper provides an overview of the results gathered by showing the effectiveness and the attractiveness of the proposed method, for the student multidimensional development, in both cognitive and creative level.

Keywords:

Mathematics education, Science education, Arts, Learning approach, Teaching Methodology.