With summer break just around the corner, many schools have project days or project weeks on their schedules – an ideal opportunity to experience math outside the classroom. MathCityMap offers a wide range of possibilities for this: Students can explore existing trails or get creative and develop their own math problems. Dennis Kern, a teacher at Frankfurt’s Adorno-Gymnasium, tells us what such a project week can look like:
“The first project week at the newly established Adorno-Gymnasium in Frankfurt was a complete success. The teachers offered a total of 45 different projects, including the MathCityMap project. On Monday, the 11 enthusiastic and engaged students participating in this project first got to know the app by working through an exciting trail on the Westend campus of Goethe University. In the process, they learned how the app works and became familiar with several possible problem formats. They used a digital classroom to create a shared framework. On Tuesday and Wednesday, they were able to get creative and, using their student accounts, created a total of 15 tasks in the schoolyard. The students used ping-pong tables, basketball hoops, a dining table, and much more to calculate areas, lateral surfaces, volumes, angles, and scales. During the final presentation of all projects on Thursday, students from all projects were able to walk around and check out the other projects. The MathCityMap project proudly presented its own tasks and invited participants to try them out and solve them using the measurement tools. A total of two trails were created – one for younger students in grades 5 through 7 and one for older students in grades 8 through 10.”
A successful example of how MathCityMap can be used during project weeks: From getting to know the app to developing their own trails, a sustainable project was created in just a few days—one that will also benefit future students. Thank you very much for sharing your experience!
