Ok, so the formal part of my action research has come to an end although I will continue to add links between the maths and science departments to help students. The feedback from them is very positive in using the cards in science although many cannot see the relevance in maths. Hmmm. I think this will change if a couple of the maths teachers give specific examples of an application of maths in science when teaching it - percentages and efficiency for example.
I'm going to write a list of the language problems I've learnt about through the course of the research and share them with all maths and science teachers in my school. Hopefully everyone will recognise that we either need to explain why there is a difference between the subjects (or at least that we know that there is a difference) or find some middle ground and get rid of the difference.
I'll post an extract from my report on here later in the week.
