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The IES Sabina Mora with his work "On reading The Man Who Counted have I received a Jury Honorable Mention in the final of Science in Action Contest 2010 that took place this year in Santiago de Compostela from 1 to 3 October.
The Commission's "Science in Action" (www.cienciaenaccion.org) are organized including by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Royal Spanish Physical Society (RSEF) and National University of Distance Education (UNED).
This is a prize for science communicators of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
The selected papers were presented at the end of this year was held at the IES Rosalía de Castro in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela from 1 to 3 October.
This is a work from the math class reading the book "The Man Who Counted, by Malba Tahan, which Beremiz tells the story of a young man with some extraordinary abilities in math on his journey to Baghdad of the caliphs irá solving a series of riddles and mathematical puzzles.
Students in the group chose the most interesting puzzles that they found, prepared for each of them a mural and manipulatives to support to solve it.
In addition, two workshops that allow closer to Islamic culture, a development of a mosaic known as the "Bone of the Alhambra" and a production of "polyhedral lamps" with cellophane simulating stained glass.
To participate in the final went to Santiago de Compostela the group of twenty students of the institute Antolinos Elías García, Pedro Alcaraz Cegarra, Daniela Cabay Tayupanda, Fulgencio Gomez Canovas, Maria José Casalliglia Almachi, Yanira Estrada Fortes, Andrea García Cano, Alicia Gomez Campillo Liliana Guillen Feliz, Ana Belén López Hernández, Mariano López Ropero, Noelia Martínez Azorín, Sonia Martínez García, M ª Asunción Pedroza Martinez, Liliana Nataly Pico Hail, Maria Mercedes Roca Madrid, Pablo Roca Rabal, Francisco Saura Moreno, Maria Carmen Saura Moreno Ginés García Soto, and two professors in math, Genevieve Vidal Carrasco and Iria.
The group was in Santiago de Compostela along the entire weekend to raise all these activities to the public of all ages who visited the contest and sharing experiences with visitors and other participants.
On Saturday afternoon, within the programmed activities, a conference was held inside the Cathedral of Santiago entitled "Science and the Cathedral of Santiago", by Dr. Gerardo Delgado, which was mainly about the Botafumeiro "at the end which the participants could see the great censer in action.
On Sunday morning took place the closing ceremony with the reading of the minutes of the jury decision by the contest director Rosa Maria Ros.
The work received an Honorable Mention in the form in which it participated Math Lab.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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