Abstract
The presented paper focuses on the issue of use of multicultural topics and teaching supported by smart board and ICT in teaching mathematics in English language at primary and lower secondary level. The paper is based on analyses of CLIL lessons taught at a Prague elementary school in the 5th and 7th grades.
The topic of the CLIL lessons was Magic squares and the lessons were conducted within the frame of the project M3EaL, whose goal is development of mathematical teaching units that are sensitive to the linguistic and cultural diversity of classrooms across Europe. Piloting of this teaching unit shows that multicultural topics are a very good learning environment for CLIL as they bring a lot of linguistic material into the lesson and thus support simultaneous development of pupils' abilities in the target language and mathematics.
It also shows how beneficial a meaningful use of smart board can be for increasing pupils' motivation in the situation when they have to learn in a foreign language. The findings are based on lesson observation, analysis of the lesson plans and follow-up reflection.