It’s hard to believe, but the three MoMaTrE project years will end on Monday. In order to complete the outputs and results on time, we met with the partners for the final meeting in Lisbon last week. All seven outputs were successfully completed and uploaded to the MoMaTrE project website www.momatre.eu in the section “The […]
It’s hard to believe, but the three MoMaTrE project years will end on Monday. In order to complete the outputs and results on time, we met with the partners for the final meeting in Lisbon last week. All seven outputs were successfully completed and uploaded to the MoMaTrE project website www.momatre.eu in the section “The Project”.
In addition to intensive work phases, we set up tasks on site and valued the Portuguese culture with Fado music. Our special thanks go to all partners involved, their ideas and their commitment in the recent years. It was a great time and we achieved a lot for the European math trail community!
Over the past three days, we were working on the further development of our app: During this year’s project meeting of the MoMaTrE team (Mobile Math Trails in Europe), we discussed many different ideas for the MathCityMap app in Berlin from Thursday to Saturday. Apart from the MathCityMap team from Goethe University Frankfurt, our project […]
Over the past three days, we were working on the further development of our app: During this year’s project meeting of the MoMaTrE team (Mobile Math Trails in Europe), we discussed many different ideas for the MathCityMap app in Berlin from Thursday to Saturday.
Apart from the MathCityMap team from Goethe University Frankfurt, our project partners from the universities of Lyon (France), Porto, Lisbon (each Portugal) and Nitra (Slovakia) also took part. Furthermore, we were actively supported by representatives of the Spanish Teachers’ Association and the Berlin app developer autentek.
All participants present the current state of the MathCityMap system in a constructive working atmosphere: Within the framework of MoMaTrE, the idea of the digital classroom is prototypically implemented, which allows teachers to observe the progress of individual groups when completing an MCM math trail. In addition, the pirate narrative created an opportunity to focus on playful learning using MathCityMap.
The mobile app version will soon be expanded as part of the MoMaTrE project, which will make it much easier to create or edit MCM math trails using a smartphone. We are also working intensively on our new community website, which should enable users to exchange and rate math trails. Furthermore, the math trail idea will be embedded in the curriculum in the European partner countries. Last but not least, two major multiplier events are on the program: In April, a one-week teacher training course will take place in Granada, Spain, while the STEM conference ROSETA is due in Porto, Portugal in June.
Of course, the app was not only further developed theoretically, but also put to practical use in an exciting math trail at the Gendarmenmarkt. In the digital classroom, the groups were able to demonstrate their mathematical knowledge while getting to know Berlin.
We would like to thank all partners for the productive project meeting!
We created a MathCityMap account on Instagram. Follow our account mathcitymap.eu for current information on MCM and the Erasmus+ projects MoMaTrE and MaSCE³! Click here! We hope for many followers!
We created a MathCityMap account on Instagram. Follow our account mathcitymap.eu for current information on MCM and the Erasmus+ projects MoMaTrE and MaSCE³!
In the next year, the MoMaTrE project will end with the international ROSETA conference. ROSETA is the acronym for Research on Outdoor STEM Education in the digiTal Age and this topic is exactly the conference’s focus. Invited are all members of the educational and scientific STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) community which are interested […]
In the next year, the MoMaTrE project will end with the international ROSETA conference. ROSETA is the acronym for Research on Outdoor STEM Education in the digiTal Age and this topic is exactly the conference’s focus.
Save the Date
ROSETA Conference 16. – 19. June 2020 Porto, Portugal
Invited are all members of the educational and scientific STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) community which are interested and experienced in outdoor education. Apart from interesting lectures and workshops, you have the opportunity to present and discuss own ideas and contribute to the open-access conference proceedings.
The event is organized by the Erasmus+ Project MoMaTrE and co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Through this, the MoMaTrE project can cover the participants’ costs for the conference partly.
If you are interested, please visit our conference website www.roseta-conference.eu. We are looking forward to your contribution!
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, we celebrated the international Erasmusdays with our Erasmus + project MoMaTrE. During perfect weather, mathematical trails were conducted at the five locations in Frankfurt, Lyon, Nitra, Porto and Santander. Together with our partners, fourteen new MathCityMap mathtrails were created for this day and these were downloaded more than 200 times […]
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, we celebrated the international Erasmusdays with our Erasmus + project MoMaTrE.During perfect weather, mathematical trails were conducted at the five locations in Frankfurt, Lyon, Nitra, Porto and Santander.
Together with our partners, fourteen new MathCityMap mathtrails were created for this day and these were downloaded more than 200 times on Saturday alone.This is a great success for the project.In particular, we would like to thank the DAAD for supporting this special activity.
But the main actors were undoubtedly the numerous mathtrailer and task solvers who were happy about sweets and certificates.
Did you know? From 10th – 12th October 2019, the EU celebrates the Erasmusdays. Of course, MathCityMap should not be missing as content-related basis of the Eramus+ project MoMaTrE! Our partners in Porto, Santander, Lyon and Nitra are celebrating the Erasmusday on Saturday, 12.10.2019 at all five locations. There will be exciting mathtrail tasks to […]
Did you know? From 10th – 12th October 2019, the EU celebrates the Erasmusdays. Of course, MathCityMap should not be missing as content-related basis of the Eramus+ project MoMaTrE!
Our partners in Porto, Santander, Lyon and Nitra are celebrating the Erasmusday on Saturday, 12.10.2019 at all five locations. There will be exciting mathtrail tasks to solve. For successful task solver, we have prices and certificates.
Further information about all locations can be found in the table:
“This application firstly combines outdoor activities with mathematics tasks. Students can walk mobile math trails for the first time. This is motivating and supports learning.” – Matthias Ludwig, Project Manager. After MathCityMap was honored as Landmark 2019 in the Land of Ideas in May 2019, the team visited us. On their website, they […]
“This application firstly combines outdoor activities with mathematics tasks. Students can walk mobile math trails for the first time. This is motivating and supports learning.” – Matthias Ludwig, Project Manager.
After MathCityMap was honored as Landmark 2019 in the Land of Ideas in May 2019, the team visited us. On their website, they present MCM with a video and interview. Find most of the contents translated into English in the following part:
Outdoor Mathematics for Scavenger Hunters
Solving formulas, determining vectors, learning the multiplication tables – all this is part of math lessons. And for some it is really annoying. But what if the tasks are posed by smartphone and solved in a team – and outdoors? The MathCityMap (MCM) app sends students in their city on math trails. For learners, this means leaving the classroom, finding their way via an app, solving tasks in different places that are connected to their own reality, receiving direct feedback and – if necessary – using digital hints. This is how math is fun and real. If you want, you develop your own tasks for the MCM portal and its EU-wide community.
Good to know:
There are also paths in Asia and the USA. The app is translated into eleven languages.
9000 tasks can be solved according to the current state.
The community currently has 3200 members. In five years it will be 25,000, which solve more than 100,000 tasks on all continents.
The system will be opened for other subjects and offer additional features.
Three questions to Matthias Ludwig
How did you come up with the idea for your project?
Unfortunately, math learning is not fun for many people. You learn with more joy when the content is connected to life. The environment offers enough learning opportunities. The special places and objects where you can practice math outside should be visible to all interested teachers. Smartphones with GPS technology help to find them. Likewise, hints can be given to the solution and a solution check can be carried out. The tasks are created and exchanged via an affiliated web portal.
Where are you today in the implementation?
The project is being intensively promoted by a European consortium and mainly by the working group MATIS I of the Goethe University Frankfurt. The app and web portal are currently translated into eleven languages; MathCityMap is used by schools and other educational institutions in more than 20 countries. Currently [as of July 2019] we have more than 3200 registered users and more than 9000 tasks in the system that can be used by other users. The range of tasks currently ranges from arithmetic to geometry and functions to stochastics.
Where do you see your project in five years?
MathCityMap will have more than 25,000 members in the community, with more than 100,000 assignments on every continent. At more than 10,000 schools worldwide, trails are created with MathCityMap. Ongoing, international “MathCityMap Educators” are selected who are involved in the project and bring the project idea to teachers. MathCityMap will move forward in terms of technology and offer additional features in the area of learning analytics such as the digital classroom and tasks with augmented reality. We will also develop our content and open the system to other disciplines such as physics or biology.
Research on MathCityMap in Indonesia has been conducted by the Working group MATIS I from IDMI Goethe University Frankfurt Germany in collaboration with the Mathematics Department of Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) since 2014. Apart from research results, MathCityMap is implemented in several regions in Indonesia both for mathematics learning activities formally in schools and for […]
Research on MathCityMap in Indonesia has been conducted by the Working group MATIS I from IDMI Goethe University Frankfurt Germany in collaboration with the Mathematics Department of Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) since 2014. Apart from research results, MathCityMap is implemented in several regions in Indonesia both for mathematics learning activities formally in schools and for informal activities in a relaxed atmosphere. MathCityMap Trails are created in the school environment as well as in city parks, historic places, and also in tourist attractions.
The Research Team (Dr. Puguh W Prasetyo, Afit Istiandaru, and Faris Setyawan) from Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) collaborated with a MathCityMap Educator, Dr. Adi Nur Cahyono from Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), to develop the MathCityMap Trails in Taman Pintar (Smart Park), a popular education and recreation park located in the center of the Yogyakarta City.
This program is part of the Digital Sciences Tourism development program funded by the City Government of Yogyakarta in 2019. The research team coordinates with Taman Pintar managers to discuss the math trails that are designed as one of the platforms in the park as well as activities to be carried out by utilizing trails which has been made. There are 3 levels of trails that can be chosen, namely the elementary, middle and high school levels which contain mathematical problems related to the educational objects in this park.
Visitors can explore mathematics in this park by using the MathCityMap App with friends or family to play and learn mathematics and get to know educative objects in a pleasant atmosphere. This program combines recreational and educational activities and emphasizes the concept of popularization of mathematics. This year, the manager of Taman Pintar also plans to use these MathCityMap Trails in organizing math and science competitions that have been routinely held every year.
After being tested, MathCityMap in Taman Pintar will be officially launched and socialized by inviting schools in the Yogyakarta City Government area. Taman Pintar is located in the center of Yogyakarta City and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city located in one of the special areas in Indonesia, the Special Region of Yogyakarta. In this special area there is also a Kingdom that is part of the Territory of Indonesia, namely the Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
Let’s visit Indonesia, let’s take a math tour at Taman Pintar Jogjakarta with MathCityMap.
On 4th of July, Matthias Ludwig and Simone Jablonski presented MathCityMap for 40 Spanish Math Teachers at 19JAEM. With a variety of Spanish maths problems, the teachers ran two math trails around the conference building near the harbor of A Coruna. Obviously, the teachers had a lot of fun while solving the tasks. In accordance, […]
On 4th of July, Matthias Ludwig and Simone Jablonski presented MathCityMap for 40 Spanish Math Teachers at 19JAEM. With a variety of Spanish maths problems, the teachers ran two math trails around the conference building near the harbor of A Coruna.
Obviously, the teachers had a lot of fun while solving the tasks. In accordance, we received good feedback and are optimistic that many new “Rutas Matematicas” will be created in Spain!
From 13th till 15th June 2019, the third annual meeting of the Erasmus+ project Mobile Math Trails in Europe (MoMaTrE) took place. Being hosted by our Slovakian partners in Nitra, the participants discussed and worked on open tasks and new ideas for the project’s final year. Many important technical, conceptual and content-based ideas were thematized […]
From 13th till 15th June 2019, the third annual meeting of the Erasmus+ project Mobile Math Trails in Europe (MoMaTrE) took place. Being hosted by our Slovakian partners in Nitra, the participants discussed and worked on open tasks and new ideas for the project’s final year.
Many important technical, conceptual and content-based ideas were thematized and exchanged. Also the events for next year were planned. Especially the international teacher training in April in Granada, Spain and the final conference on STEM in June in Porto, Portugal will be two important highlights of the project. Further information will follow!
Apart from the working phases, we also conducted the mandatory Math Trail in the streets of Nitra, visited the castel and enjoyed traditional Slovakian food.
Exchange of Project Ideas
Presentation of the Intensive Study Programme
Measuring for the Math Trail
Group Photo with Partners from Berlin, Lyon, Porto, Lisbon, Nitra, Spain and Frankfurt
