Catania – MathCityMap

A master thesis on MathCityMap and its novelties

At the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania, the student of the Master degree course in Mathematics Emanuele Amico, under the supervision of Professor Eugenia Taranto, is working on his Master thesis. This is an experimental thesis whose aim is to analyse the impact of using MathCityMap on students’ learning in terms of problem solving and problem posing skills. The teaching experiment, which took place in May 2021, involved a grade 9 class at the Liceo Scientifico “A. Volta” in Caltanissetta (Sicily). Due to the emergency situation caused by the pandemic, the experimentation took place in indoor mode, using the MCM@home and Digital Classroom functionalities.

For more details, read the full report (in Italian) here.

November 15th, 2018 a teacher training course named “MathCityMap: using and creating tasks around the city” started. It is promoted by the Accademia dei Lincei and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. As a first activity, a group of school teachers tested the first trail created in Catania. The teachers got in touch with the potential of the MathCityMap app and lived the city of Catania with different eyes! In fact, they met some mathematical activities, located between Villa Bellini and Piazza Duomo. Here is what they said at the end of the meeting: “it was fun, engaging and interesting. It could be an excellent dissemination tool, and from an educational point of view it is an excellent opportunity to involve students by letting them doing mathematics in an interdisciplinary, contextualised, real and concrete educational context”

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Authors: Angelo Ariosto, Daniela Ferrarello, Eugenia Taranto.

Tag: Catania

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