New Partner School in Germany!

We are very pleased to welcome the Holbein-Gymnasium Augsburg as a new MathCityMap partner school!

Thanks to the commitment of teacher Matthias Hartmann, MathCityMap was not only successfully integrated into lessons during the past school year, but also established among the teaching staff and sustainably anchored with the school management.
A particularly significant milestone was the introduction of a fixed project day for the entire 10th grade: From now on, all tenth-grade students at Holbein-Gymnasium will complete a MathCityMap trail once a year.

Several creative trails have already been developed at Holbein-Gymnasium:

• “Schatzsuche Holbein” (Treasure Hunt Holbein – 3523479)
  This trail is aimed at 5th-grade students and leads them across the school grounds.
• “Mathe am Kuhsee” (Maths at the Kuhsee – 2428739)
  A trail for students from grade 7 onwards at a recreational area in Augsburg.
  It is particularly noteworthy that this trail is specifically used to review key content from lower secondary level (grades 5–7) – ideal preparation for the statewide grade 8 assessment test in Bavaria.

The first annual project day already took place at the end of the school year. The focus was on the trail “Mathe auf dem Campus” (Maths on campus – 0912164), originally developed by a former teacher training student at the University of Augsburg.
In addition to mathematical surveying exercises, this trail gives students the opportunity to gain their first impressions of campus life at a university.

The positive feedback from the first trial runs shows that MathCityMap is well received by the students:

“I thought MathCityMap was really cool because you don’t just do math at your desk, but also outside.”
“I thought MathCityMap was great because the tasks were totally different and in some cases more challenging than in the textbook.”
“I thought MathCityMap was awesome because you first had to go to the exact location and then solve the tasks there.”
“It’s crazy how MathCityMap shows that there’s so much math in everyday life.”

We are very happy about this addition to our network and look forward to many more ideas and trails from Augsburg!

The package with the official partner school badge and the MCM measuring instruments has already been delivered and we are looking forward to receiving more applications from all over the world.

All further information on the partner school programme and the requirements for application can be found both in the article on the first MCM partner school and on the homepage of our MaSCE³ project.