DEVELOPING LEARNING SOFTWARE FOR MIGRANT STUDENTS IN A EUROPEAN COLLABORATION PROJECT

A high percentage of students in many European countries are migrants. Materials that teachers have available to teach mathematics in classrooms with a high percentage of migrant students are scarcely available, and migrant students' learning outcomes are significantly lower than those of their native colleagues. Studies show that teachers are not sufficiently prepared to teach in multicultural contexts, and migrant students have additional challenges with learning a new language and culture at the same time as learning mathematics. In the framework of an Erasmus project, a team of educators and ICT specialists from Austria, Italy, and Slovakia is currently developing, evaluating, testing and publishing mathematical learning software with a particular focus on migrant students. The poster will present the results from a clarification-of-terms analysis, statistical data analysis about migrant students, results from teacher interviews regarding mathematical topics where support is most urgently needed, results from the software testing in classrooms, and show some screenshots from the learning software products for elementary students.