We are planning to deliver a new update this Thursday morning. Since data structure changes are involved, technical malfunctions cannot be excluded during this day. If you have disabled automatic updates for your apps, please check manually for available updates on this day on the app stores (App Store for iOS, Google Play for Android). […]
We are planning to deliver a new update this Thursday morning. Since data structure changes are involved, technical malfunctions cannot be excluded during this day.
If you have disabled automatic updates for your apps, please check manually for available updates on this day on the app stores (App Store for iOS, Google Play for Android). We advice against using an outdated version of the MCM app, since technical malfunctions could occur.
November 15th, 2018 a teacher training course named “MathCityMap: using and creating tasks around the city” started. It is promoted by the Accademia dei Lincei and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. As a first activity, a group of school teachers tested the first trail created in Catania. The teachers got […]
November 15th, 2018 a teacher training course named “MathCityMap: using and creating tasks around the city” started. It is promoted by the Accademia dei Lincei and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania. As a first activity, a group of school teachers tested the first trail created in Catania. The teachers got in touch with the potential of the MathCityMap app and lived the city of Catania with different eyes! In fact, they met some mathematical activities, located between Villa Bellini and Piazza Duomo. Here is what they said at the end of the meeting: “it was fun, engaging and interesting. It could be an excellent dissemination tool, and from an educational point of view it is an excellent opportunity to involve students by letting them doing mathematics in an interdisciplinary, contextualised, real and concrete educational context”
Authors: Angelo Ariosto, Daniela Ferrarello, Eugenia Taranto.
MoMaTrE (Mobile Math Trails in Europe) – this is the name of the european project to spread technology supported math trails in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany and Slovakia. From 6th until 9th of November Moritz Baumann and Iwan Gurjanow (both Goethe University) visited Nitra (Slovakia) and carried out several workshops in collaboration with Sona Ceretkova (Professor for mathematics education […]
MoMaTrE (Mobile Math Trails in Europe) – this is the name of the european project to spread technology supported math trails in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany and Slovakia. From 6th until 9th of November Moritz Baumann and Iwan Gurjanow (both Goethe University) visited Nitra (Slovakia) and carried out several workshops in collaboration with Sona Ceretkova (Professor for mathematics education at the university Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre) with the focus on outdoor modelling with MathCityMap.
The workshop preparations took place on Tuesday afternoon. In this context we created a math trail that contains ten tasks, that the participants of the workshops should complete. Amongst other things, the current task of the week is part of the trail. The area around the university as well as the beautiful old town of Nitra have been inspected and suitable objects were photographed and measured.
On Wednesday and Thursday morning two sessions of 90 minutes each for teacher students took place. The future teachers could gain insights into the theory of education outside the classroom, the theory of math trails as well as mathematical modelling. However, the participants had the most fun with the practical part in which they had to complete the math trail (see series of pictures). During the math trail, the new digital classroom feature could be successfully tested. The second session focused on creating a math trail with the use of MathCityMap. The participants showed great interest in the project and participated actively in the work phases. For us, the practical phases of a workshop are very important. They allow future teachers to get in touch with the new technology and to reduce fears to use digital media in classroom. Hopefully, this contributes to an increased use of digital media and in this context of MathCityMap in the real mathematics classroom in the future.
On Wednesday afternoon, teacher students of the primary school listened to a lecture about math trails and modelling. The lecture was held in English and translated simultaniously into Slovakish (see impressions in the lecture hall). It was the first time that students were able to attend an international lecture and certainly aroused interest, for example in participating in the Intensive Program for Mathtrails at the Goethe University in March 2019. The exchange between students and lecturers from the participating European countries is one of the goals of the Erasmus + project.
The travel was concluded by a 3 hours workshop for in-service teachers of mathematics in Nitra. The session was structured in a similiar way as described above and offered the participants to get in touch with new possibilities of integrating smartphones in their mathematics classroom.
Overall, we consider the meeting in Nitra a great success for the European project. The events was tightly clocked and could all be successfully completed. The cooperation and the exchange with the Slovak lecturers was furthermore informative for us. We were able to enjoy a great hospitality, get to know the beautiful city in the short spare time in an authentic way and learn about the Slovak education system. The next MoMaTrE project meeting will take place in Nitra too and we look forward to it!
The following pictures show impressions of the city and our workshops.
Today’s update extends the web portal with an important new feature. The mobile version of the portal (e.g. on mobile devices) now automatically starts in the so-called “draft mode”. It is a reduced and light weight view that displays the map and a plus button at the bottom right hand corner. Clicking this button allows […]
Today’s update extends the web portal with an important new feature. The mobile version of the portal (e.g. on mobile devices) now automatically starts in the so-called “draft mode”. It is a reduced and light weight view that displays the map and a plus button at the bottom right hand corner. Clicking this button allows to quickly create a task draft. Just add a picture via your smartphone and click on the “Get position” button to automatically set your position. The task draft will be accessible in the “My tasks” area. This features allows users to quickly create a task draft while they are outside that can be polished and finished later on at home. There is still the possibility to use all web portal functionalities on your mobile as well – just switch to “Default mode”. For more information take a look at the attached tutorial video.
Your opinion is important to us! We are always looking forward to hear about your opinion on the MathCityMap project. Your experiences and suggestions are important to improve our further development! Please fill out the following form to tell us about your experiences with the MCM project: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IoYWMFxqDhgXIjpU-_q0PsJ21dDogU8y7y8zOKFlni0
We are always looking forward to hear about your opinion on the MathCityMap project. Your experiences and suggestions are important to improve our further development!
Please fill out the following form to tell us about your experiences with the MCM project:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IoYWMFxqDhgXIjpU-_q0PsJ21dDogU8y7y8zOKFlni0
The new homepage is finally online. On top is a welcome-slider located. This one explains the project MathCityMap in a few titled pictures and enables first insights. The quick start area is located directly underneath. Here are all the important functions of MCM linked together: The MCM portal: Registered users can create and edit tasks and […]
The new homepage is finally online. On top is a welcome-slider located. This one explains the project MathCityMap in a few titled pictures and enables first insights. The quick start area is located directly underneath. Here are all the important functions of MCM linked together:
Links to recent contributions and categories as well as project description can be found at the sidebar located on the right, next to the homepage.
During the next few days and weeks we will start to publish tutorials and publications. At the same time we work on an English version of MathCityMap for the ICME13 conference in Hamburg. Furthermore there will be a covarage on different math trails. It is also possible to comment news and math trails.
