conference – MathCityMap

With our conference report, we want to give an insight in our activities in Denmark’s beautiful capital city Copenhagen during the last week.

From 5th till 7th September 2018, the conference „Mathematical Education in the Digital Age“ took place. It is a part of the European Researchers of Mathematical Education, the most popular international professional association of mathematics education. More than 90 researchers from the field of digital education met during this event. Also the team around Prof. Dr. Matthias Ludwig was part in order to present the mobile application „MathCityMap“. MathCityMap was developed at Goethe University and is a system to create and run math trails. During the stay, a math trail in Copenhagen’s city center was created as a “present” for the city. Simone Jablonski and Joerg Zender, two research assistants and PhD students presented the review system of MathCityMap and were actively involved in the working groups of the conference. Here, important contacts were established, e.g. with the partner University of Pennsilvania (Philadelphia, USA). The contribution is included in the proceedings of MEDA. A special success of the presentation was the mentioning of the project in the final closing ceremony.

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As part of the joint meeting of GDM and DMV in Paderborn from 05.03. – 09.03.2018, MathCityMap was presented in various ways. First of all, on 06.03. Matthias Ludwig spoke on the Erasmus + project MoMaTrE (Mobile Math Trails in Europe), in which the cooperation partners and goals were presented on an international level. On 08.03., Iwan Gurjanow presented his research results in the field of motivation and gamification (points and leaderboard) while running a math trail. In addition, Joerg Zender considered the Math Trail idea from the point of view of performance, which led to interesting discussions on 09.03.

A special highlight for the entire team is the prize which Daniel Birnbaum and Matthias Ludwig won at the poster session. On the poster, the future-oriented technology Augmented Reality was presented, as well as first ideas to use it in school and MCM.

During the entire conference, the participants had the opportunity to test a trail in the city center of Paderborn. Of course, we took the chance and ran the trail from the perspective of the task solver with lots of fun and ambition.

At this point, we want to thank Max Hoffmann and the students of the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium for creating the tasks! Likewise, we would like to thank all interested in the project for the exciting questions and discussions.

At the beginning of the year, MathCityMap and research results were presented at an international STEM conference in Mumbai, India. Matthias Ludwig spoke at the epiSTEME 7 on 7th January 2018 about the motivational effects of using MathCityMap. Further, he created a small trail together with Xenia Reit, which was enthusiastically tested by the participants of the conference. No wonder in this smartphone addicted country.

Joerg Zender, Iwan Gurjanow and Matthias Ludwig presented MCM in theory and practice on Friday, 17.11.2017 at the ISTRON conference at the Landesinstitut in Hamburg. The lecutre by Matthias Ludwig was very well attended with more than 120 listeners and led into the world of outdoor mathematics. He combined traditional methods such as measuring with the measuring table and the scientific and technological approach of MCM. In the fully booked workshop, Iwan Gurjanow and Joerg Zender presented MCM in practice. First, the participants got the chance to complete some tasks of the prepared trails and created their own tasks and a trail in the MCM portal afterwards. The success of the training was also made possible through the very good technical equipment and support provided by the Landesinstitut Hamburg.

Hamburg was fun again and we are looking forwards to coming back!

The MathCityMap project was presented at the ICTMT conference in Lyon (3 – 6 July 2017) by Iwan Gurjanow. The focus of the performance was on the MCM app and the different gamification modes (correct-false feedback, points, leaderboard) related to the intrinsic motivation. Further, the first results of the study conducted in June were presented. More on this topic will soon be available in the publications section.

Mathtrail on the terrain of the ENS (École normal supérieure de Lyon)

In addition to the presentation there was also a Mathtrail in the garden of the ENS (meeting place) created by Prof. Dr. Christian Mercat (l’Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1). At the conference, the participants were given the opportunity to solve the Mathtrail exercises on their own. The best solutions were awarded a prize. Many participants tested the app with best weather and discussed about the tasks, which can often be solved in different ways. One example is the staircase shown below, in which the area of the edge of the staircase was determined.

It was a successful conference and we are already looking forward to the next one: ICTMA in Cape Town (South Africa)!

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MCM at MEDA conference in Copenhagen

MCM scores at GDMV conference in Paderborn

MathCityMap goes to Mumbai

MCM as a highlight at the ISTRON conference

MathCityMap at the ICTMT 13 in Lyon

Mathtrail on the terrain of the ENS (École normal supérieure de Lyon)