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Dear friends, We write you from Latvia to tell you about our idea what we can do with the project "Connecting Math to our Lives". Project coordinators are Aija Cunska and Velga Blaua, participants - six schools from Latvia: 1. Aizkraukle Secondary School No 2And now about how we have planned our work. As the situation in Latvia is different compare with other countries we decided to find another stresses in our work. It is co-operative work of parents and their children. And we made the computer courses (classes) for 5-6 teams of families (one child and one of parents) in six schools. The children are the students of grades 3-6 (they do not have computer science at school yet). During four month they will have computer classes one time in a week for two hours. This will be the time when the teams meet at school and study computer science. But!!! They will have to do the home exercises, too! And the exercise will be from the project "Connecting Math to our Lives". We will go through the most of common programs with the aims: 1. To get to know the computer and to encourage to use the computer in the educational work at the lessons and in the I*EARN projects;There will be a Web page, too. Every lesson our families will get to know new things about the possibilities of IT and they will have different exercises connected with everyday math. At the end they have to make family newspaper where everything they learned in the classes will be reflected. Then we will make one outcome from Latvia and send it to you! Latvia is in the eastern part of Europe and it is situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Latvia borders with Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus, but our overseas neighbour is Sweden. Its territory is 64000 km2. The population is about 2,7 million. Latvia's capital is Riga. It is founded in 1201 and now it is going to celebrate its 80th birthday. For centuries Riga is known as a major cultural, political and trade centre not only of Latvia, but the entire Baltic region. The Latvians have been living for many centuries in this territory. We have rich cultural heritage of folk songs, dances, art and folk traditions and we are proud about it. It is almost the XXI century but still a lot of our pupils and people at all take an active part in studying the folk songs and dances and other kinds of folk's applied art. The greatest and the most impressive cultural event is our Festivals of Songs and Dances which take place once in four years.
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