The present Task of the Week leads to Münster and contains a question from the probability calculation. Task: Red or Green? (Task number: 428) The city of Münster is trying […]

This week’s Task of the Week addresses, in particular, the modeling competence of the students. It is a question of approximating the weight of a stone as closely as possible […]

At the invitation of Stiftung Rechnen and EuroScience, Iwan Gurjanow and Matthias Ludwig spent two days in Kappeln in Schleswig-Holstein at the Baltic Sea to create MCM Mathtrails for a […]

In the present Task of the Week, the Roman numerals are looked at more closely, a spelling for the natural numbers which arose in Roman antiquity. Particularly on old buildings, […]

While during the past few weeks we often presented tasks which can be solved from secondary level, the present Task of the Week shows that the MathCityMap project can already be […]

The present task of the week is about a geometric question. It involves the area calculation of the roof surface of the illustrated pavilion. Task: Pavilion (task number: 665) Determine the […]

After our presentation in Münster at the beginning of the week, the WDR created a short video about our MCM app. A student tested the trail in Münster and did quite well. […]

On Tuesday, 23.05.2017, members of the MCM team were invited by the research team of the University of Münster to create a Math Trail in the north of the Aasee. They also informed interested teachers […]

On Thursday, 24 participants took part in the House of Finance at the Westend Campus of the Goethe University and wanted to find out about the latest developments in the […]

The current “Task of the Week” shows that many geometrical questions can be found in different traffic signs. This concerns the circular “passage prohibited” sign and, in particular, the question of the […]

The focus of today’s Task of the Week is a combinatorial question. In addition to the typical combinatorical question for the number of possibilities, an application of the Fibonacci numbers, which […]

It has been a bit longer since there was a bigger update of the MCM web portal. But now it is time and it brings two major innovations with it. Task Wizard The […]

The present task of the week is about geometric figures. In the task “Cylinder on the Rhine”, located in Cologne, the aim is to determine the radius of a cylinder by […]

The present task of the week is about a sculpture in form of a hand. In this form, it can be found in the Dillfeld Trail in Wetzlar. The aim of […]

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 […]

The current “Task of the Week” is about the hydrant sign, which might have been noticed frequently in everyday life. By means of them, hydrants can be quickly and precisely located, e.g. for fire-fighting […]

We are pleased to announce that the MathCityMap app is now also available for iOS smartphones, such as the iPhone. You can find the app either by searching in the app store for: “mathcitymap” […]

This week we would like to present the task “On a big Foot”. It is located close to the main railway station in Hamburg and is part of the trail […]

Today’s “Task of the Week” leads to Lyon, France, included in the trail “IFE”. It deals with an area calculation of a particular kind and shows in an exciting way which varied […]

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 […]