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MaSCE³ Kick-Off Meeting in Viana do Castelo

Author gregor.milicicDate
General

From 31st of October till 2nd of November, the Kick-off Meeting of the Erasmus+ project Math Trails in School, Curriculum and Educational Environments of Europe (MaSCE³) took place. Being hosted by our Portuguese partners in Viana do Castelo, the participants first got to know each other, discussed about the aim and vision of the project, the first steps and milestones as well as the intellectual outputs.

The idea of the MaSCE³ project is to close the gap between “normal mathematics lesson” and Math Trails as a “special learning and teaching method”. To achieve that, we discussed many technical, conceptual and content-based ideas in order to make it easier for teachers to include Math Trails on a regular basis in their lessons.

Apart from the working phases, we also conducted the mandatory Math Trail in the beautiful city of Viana do Castelo and enjoyed traditional Portuguese food.

  • Exchanging ideas about the MaSCE³ project
  • Solving the tasks of the Math Trail
  • Our partners from all over Europe
  • Group Photo with Partners from Berlin, Lyon, Catania, Viana do Castelo, Spain, Tallinn, Offenburg and Frankfurt

Intensive teacher training programme in Granada 2020

Author Simon BarlovitsDate
Events

As part of our Erasmus+ Project Mobile Math Trails in Europe (MoMaTrE) you can discover MathCityMap and Outdoor Mathematics with an international group of teachers in the beautiful historic city of Granada!

Do you want to…

  • experience MathCityMap and Outdoor Mathematics in an intensive teacher training programme,
  • work with other teachers and exchange your MathCityMap experiences,
  • visit Granada and do mathematics in a cultural and historical environment?

From 16th to 19th April 2020, a three-day international teacher training will take place in Granada, Spain. During this Multiplier Event, the participants will get to know additional features of the system MathCityMap from different perspectives, create their own tasks and trails and exchange experiences made with the system. We invite all interested teachers to apply for this teacher training.

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, accomodation and meals.

Please find all relevant information for the application, on the schedule and the location on the MoMaTrE website!

Workshop

Author Simone JablonskiDate
EventsMath Trails

On Thursday, May 18, 2017, an interactive workshop on MathCityMap will be given at the Goethe University campus.

Mathematics on the road

With this slogan, we presented the project MathCityMap in Frankfurt a year ago in a small teacher training course. Since then, many things have happened:

  • Over 1000 tasks have been created by numerous enthusiastic “Mathtrailers” worldwide.     
  • MathCityMap is currently available in nine different languages.     
  • Further, exciting research and development results could be achieved in the MCM team.     
  • We have received numerous suggestions from users and implemented them as innovations.

In the workshop, we would like to inform you about MCM and introduce you to the new possibilities offered by MCM. Please bring your smartphone and – if possible – a laptop, because we say: Participation is more than just taking part!

As part of the workshop, you will be able to gain experience with mathematics on the street around the Westend campus. In addition, your own ideas are developed into tasks and immediately tested with the MathCityMap app. Click here to register.

This event is accredited by IQ (Hessen) as LFB.

Time: 18.05.2017 15:00-18:00

Place: House of Finance, Campus Westend, Room “Shanghai” (room 1.28), Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 3, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

MathCityMap in Wetzlar

Author Simone JablonskiDate
EventsMath Trails

It is a sunny Saturday morning in an industrial area near Wetzlar. The Mathematics Center Wetzlar invited students of the Q2 to a mathematics competition. The teachers had the opportunity to participate in the “MathCityMap – Mathematics on the Road” workshop and to get to know our project. After a short theoretical introduction to the subject of outdoor mathematics and mathtrails, the participants (with a measuring stick, measuring tape and smartphone) went to solve mathematical questions in the industrial area of ​​Dillfeld. For example, they had to find out the capacity of a tank or determine the slope of a metal ramp. After this, they had the possibility to formulate own tasks for objects in the environment and to create them in the MCM web portal. The result was a new mathtrail consisting of the newly created tasks of the teachers.

We hope that the participants had a lot of fun and some ideas for their own lessons. We are already looking forward to tasks and trails that will follow from this event. At this point, we would like to thank for the invitation to this event!  

Are you interested in workshops on outdoor mathematics with MathCityMap? Take a look at our event page.

MathCityMap in Meißen

Author Simone JablonskiDate
EventsMath Trails

Being part of the “Day of Mathematics and Natural Sciences” in Saxony, the MathCityMap team held a course on outdoor mathematics with MCM. The “Sächsische Bildungsinstitut” (SBI) invited to this event on 9th March 2017 in Meißen at Schloss Siebeneichen. 24 participants took part in the workshop and were able to solve mathematical problems and questions around the castle. For example, one had to find out how high the tower of the castle is or how many liters of water fit into the pool. In the second part of the course, the teachers were able to search for own mathematical tasks in the environment and to create them in the portal.

We hope that the participants had a lot of fun and got some ideas for their own lessons. We are already looking forward to tasks and trails that will follow from this event.  

Are you interested in workshops on outdoor mathematics with MathCityMap? Take a look at our event page.

Happy Birthday MCM-App! Numbers and Facts

Author Simone JablonskiDate
General

At the 3rd of March, the MCM-App became one year old. At first, all the best to it! We would take this opportunity to draw an interim conclusion.

Development

The app did not always look the way as it does today (see cover picture). It was a long development process until the app satisfied the demands. To do so, we presented and used the app in numerous events and let the feedback enter the further development. Through this, functions such as the guided tour (start from a selected task), the orange interval and first gamification elements were included. Meanwhile, the app arrived in its 14th version under the designation “1.82”. Nevertheless, we still have further ideas, which we want to implement in the future.

Prospects

We are pleased with the iOS-version of MCM, which will probably appear in the beginning of April. Further, in nearby future, it should be possible to create GPS-based tasks (e.g. to position oneself in a right angle from two points). More, task templates for objects which can be found often in the environment (e.g. advertisement pillars) should facilitate the creation of tasks extremely. The supplemental project “MCM-Control” should allow teachers to follow the learners’ progress and intervene if necessary.

Numbers

The MCM-App for Android has been downloaded and installed over 500 times and has an actual evaluation of 3,8/5 stars (we look forward to further evaluations!). Now, the MCM web portal includes over 1000 tasks, which are created and revised by about 200 registered users. The tasks can be located in different areas, e.g. Hamburg, Potsdam, Rhein-Main area, Erlangen, Wetzlar, Münster, Saarbrücken, Würzburg, Mannheim, Lyon (France), Semarang (Indonesia) and many more. In the past year, we offered ten events for teachers to get to know outdoor mathematics with MathCityMap.

It will be interesting to see what can be expected for 2017.