Tag: mathtrails

MCM meets Girls’ Day

Author Simone JablonskiDate
Events

On 26.04.2018 the annual Girls’ Day took place. The science faculties of Goethe University participated as well and therefore, 40 students who are interested in maths were able to get to know and test MathCityMap at the Campus Riedberg.

After a short introduction given by Nazanin Roushanaei and Simone Jablonski, the girls at ages 12 till 16 came together in small groups and started a mathematical “paper chase”. With sunny weather they solved tasks on slope, height of buildings and bodies. The girls had a lot of fun and motivation, so that one group was actually able to solve all tasks of a trail in the period of one hour.

During a final phase, the girls gave their feedback. A first impression already showed: thumbs up for the MathCityMap app. We thank all the participants and are already looking forward to the next Girls’ Day.

You can find the trails here:

Grade 5/6/7

Grade 8/9/10

Mathtrail Seminar 2017

Author Simone JablonskiDate
EventsMath Trails

In this summer semester, students (for becoming a teacher in mathematics) at Goethe University Frankfurt again have the opportunity to take part in the Mathtrail seminar as a special event in order to get to know the advantages of outdoor mathematics. Before the participants will develop their own tasks and trails, they should experience how it feels to make mathematics outside the classroom. This Thursday , the course took place at the Mainufer near the ECB in order to run the trail in the “Im Schatten der EZB“, which was created and tested a year ago by the Mathtrail seminar, with help of the MCM app.

In the end, everyone agreed that a mathtrail can be a lot of fun and time can fly when one solves the math problem outside the classroom. However, it has also become clear that it is not so easy to develop good tasks, because the boundary between challenge and frustration can already be exceeded through a narrow solution interval.

In the coming weeks, students will be familiar with the MathCityMap system and then implement their own trail. We are curious!

P.S.: The weather was good as always! ?

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.