Category: General

At the YESS10 conference last week, Simon presented his upcoming study about students’ learning progress using the MathCityMap app. Of course, the YESS10 (YERME Summer School) took place online.

The MathCityMap idea was enthusiastically received by the participants of the conference. For example, the Israeli High-school Math teacher and researcher Eli Netzer, who analyzes Hebrew educational video (Link to Eli’s website), gave us this feedback:

I believe that MathCityMap is a valuable project for extracurricular mathematics learning. The project affords profound mathematical learning since it is based on three strong aspects: social, mobile and real mathematics learning.
I am looking forward to using the project site with my students, explore and add new mathematical interesting tasks and Math trails in the Tel-Aviv city.

In addition, Eli created this really cool illustration about the theoretical framwork of MathCityMap (left picture).

During the Corona crisis, exponential curves, e.g. infection rates, are presented daily in the media. Therefore, we want to show you one – very pleasing – exponential development about our MathCityMap system:

In April 2017, MathCityMap had around 300 registered Users, 1.000 tasks were created in the web portal. One year later MathCityMap provided 3.200 tasks for the 1.200 Users. In spring 2019, the MCM community already consisted of 2.700 users, who created 7.200 MathCityMap tasks.

Today MathCityMap has ca. 4.600 registered users. In total, 12.800 tasks and 2.050 math trails were created in many different languages all over the world. Our MCM video is now available in nine (!) different languages (click here to see the YouTube playlist).

Dear user,

MathCityMap owes this fantastic development in recent years to your interest and creativity. In the current situation, we are happy to see the creation of numerous MCM@Home tasks and trails. After the crisis, we are looking forward to many mathematical outdoor tasks.

We wish you and your families all the best. Stay healthy!
Your MathCityMap team

How does the MathCityMap app work? How it can be used by students?

To answer those questions, we shot a short video. Prof. Dr. Matthias Ludwig, head of the MathCityMap team Frankfurt, explains in the video how the app can be used. Thanks a lot to our three actors from the Junge Mathe-Adler Frankfurt!
Click here to watch the video on YouTube.

Notwithstanding, learning mathematics outdoors is hard to imagine at the moment. We want to enable learners and teachers to use the MathCityMap system for tasks which can be solved at home. Therefore, we created some MCM@Home trails.

Today is Pi Day! Therefore, we want to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi on todays 3/14. For all fans of Pi, we created a fantastic math Trail consisting of multfarious tasks about this amazing number: “Pi – An irrational good Trail”. In that trail you will find tasks about the area of an circle (segment), the volume of a cylinder and of a truncated cone as well as the number of posters on an advertisment pillar!

For all fans of Pi, we list the first 100 digits of Pi in the following:

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510

58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 8628 034825 34211 70679

From February 13 to 14 the “Forum des mathématiques” took place in Marseille. Christian Mercat, professor at the University of Lyon and one of our European project partners (MoMaTrE and MaSCE³), ran a very successful MathCityMap workshop at the Forum: During the congress, his great math trail “Forum 2020” was downloaded more than 400 times. In addition, more than 260 individuals or groups participated in the related Digital Classroom.

Thanks a lot, Christian, for this incredible MathCityMap workshop, which took Marseille by storm!

Christian reports on the form: This is the first time a MathCityMap trail was setup in this forum. Prizes were distributed but there was no need for that in order to motivate the participants, hundreds of participants played with the app and opened a scientific eye on the campus around them, figuring out the size of the letters on top of the building, the number of red tiles in a mosaic and so on.

Background information:

“Maths pour Tous” (“Math for All in French”) is an association based in Marseille, backed up by the Aix-Marseille University. They have organised for more than 10 years numerous forums where thousands of people flock to the university or other public venues to enjoy mathematics, accounting for the largest math events in France outside Paris. It consists in Math conferences, workshops, poster sessions, held by students themselves presenting their work during the year alongside top specialists in mathematics disseminating their work to the wider public.