Interdisciplinary Relations Supporting Propaedeutics of Mathematics in Primary Education

Abstract

This paper presents a way of utilizing interdisciplinary relations between two educational branches, Mathematics and its applications and Information technologies (ICT) in integrated learning by the use of the Scratch programming language. The authors also present how they understand the concept of integrated learning and why they have chosen to integrate mathematics and programming in Scratch. The situation regarding state testing in the Czech Republic and its outputs, which had been the main impulse for why to create presented activities, will be outlined. The main part of this paper is dedicated to created activities. They focus on topics of geometry and tessellations from the educational branch of mathematics and its application and topics of programming and vector graphics from educational ICT branch. At the end of the article, the authors describe the conducted pilot survey and its outcomes.