About us
Insight into the world of MathCityMap
The ideA
What is MathCityMap?
The MathCityMap app aims to sharpen awareness of these objects with mathematical walking trails, known as math trails. Interesting objects are marked on a map and linked to a mathematical question.
App
Outdoor Mathematics
With the MathCityMap app, learners and math enthusiasts can rediscover their environment from a mathematical perspective. The app offers various Math Trails. Mathematically interesting locations are marked with pins on a map. When you are near these pins, you can view and solve the problems. MathCityMap combines the idea of mathematical trails with the possibilities of modern technologies such as GPS localisation for orientation purposes, a support system and a feedback system. Once downloaded, routes can also be used in offline mode. In addition, there is also an online map that displays all public problems.
The Web Portal
With the MathCityMap web portal, teachers and creative minds can create their own mathematical walking trails, enabling others to rediscover their environment. In addition to tools for creating tasks and math trails, the web portal serves as a source of inspiration. Here, you can discover what tasks already exist for objects that you have noticed in your own environment and get ideas on how to implement a specific mathematical topic outdoors with a math trail. Another essential feature is the digital classroom. Here, I can create individual sessions with maths trails for my learners and observe where they are and how they are working on the tasks, as well as contact them directly via my own chat if they encounter difficulties or organisational challenges.
The web portal also offers me the opportunity to network with other teachers and create learning groups (classes) in which I can set up individual student accounts. These allow learners to log into the web portal themselves and become task creators.
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The Team
The idea for MathCityMap was first presented in 2012 by Prof. Dr. Matthias Ludwig. Since then, the team and the project have grown steadily. A large number of European partners support and accompany the project didactically in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Estonia, Greece, Austria and Slovakia.
Here, the team from Frankfurt introduces itself.
Professor Dr. Matthias Ludwig
Project lead
Matthias Ludwig studied mathematics and physics in Würzburg and conducted research at the PH Weingarten from 2002 to 2011 before accepting a position at Goethe University in 2011.
Tim Läufer
Technical team – Management
Tim Läufer studied computer science and physics to become a secondary school teacher and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Patrick Müller
Technical team
Patrick Müller is studying for a bachelor’s degree in computer science and currently works as a student assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Julian Lorenz
Technical team
Julian Lorenz holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science and a master’s degree in computer science and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Iwan Gurjanow
Technical team
Iwan Gurjanow studied computer science and physical education to become a secondary school teacher, obtained his doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2021, and currently works as an external employee at MathCityMap.
Philipp Larmann
Coordination of the MATRIX project and didactic support
Philipp Larmann studied mathematics and chemistry to become a secondary school teacher and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Leonie Horsch
Website and educational support
Leonie Horsch studied mathematics and English to become a secondary school teacher and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Isabella Gogesch
Social media and didactic support
Isabella Gogesch studied mathematics and art to become a secondary school teacher and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Simon Barlovits
Didactic support
Simon Barlovits studied mathematics and politics & economics to become a secondary school teacher and currently works as a research assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt.
development
Our Projects
In previous projects, we developed the MathCityMap system (www.mathcitymap.eu) for researchers (www.momatre.eu) and teachers (www.masce.eu) to explore and organise maths trails with pupils. The system has gained international popularity in recent years. Nevertheless, the teachers we work with would like to see more possibilities: on the one hand, they would like to include pupils with learning difficulties and, on the other hand, they would like to involve their pupils as task designers for MathCityMap outdoor tasks. Therefore, we want to further develop and renew the MathCityMap system at various levels for our new main target group: the pupils. We are implementing this wish in the current Erasmus+ project MATRIX.
