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ABSTRACT
We report our progress on the “River Memorial Museum” didactic intervention project developed with schools, in the basin of the Atoyac River in Mexico, that are significantly impacted by the pollution produced through industrialisation. The teachers of the elementary schools in these communities, environmental scientists, educators, and community activists participated jointly in a co-construction process, designing interdisciplinary educational activities to study local environmental issues and recovering the principles of a socio-critical perspective of mathematical modelling. In this paper, we centre on presenting the methodology of the didactic intervention with the teachers of one school of an Atoyac River basin community and the principles for designing educational activities we developed collaboratively with them. We believe this methodology could be helpful to support others in thinking about similar opportunities in their communities.
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Notes
9 In Mexico there are several instant messenger and social network services that are usually included “with no data transmission limits” by the internet providers. Thus, they are widely used by the teachers, the students, and their families. However, the data transmission speed, coverage and the stability of the connection are often problematic for smooth communication, especially in rural areas.