Date: 7. October 2019 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The weight of DCU

This week our presented task is located in Ireland. At the campus of the Dublin City University (DCU) our MoMaTrE partner Christian Mercat created the task “The weight of DCU” […]

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Date: 30. September 2019 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The green ear

Today´s task of the week is located in Lüneburg, Germany, where the teacher trainee Jennifer Oppermann created the task “The green ear”. She gave us an interview about this task, […]

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Date: 20. September 2019 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the week: Volume of the bottle

The task of the week is back! Today we present you a task, which was developed during a teacher training at the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Bad Vilbel near Frankfurt. Next to […]

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Date: 24. June 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The Hexagon

This time the task is located in Grahamstown, South Africa. Calculate the area of the hexagonshaped table. Give the result in units of m². The task can be solved in different ways. […]

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Date: 7. June 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The volume of Mendeleïev

This time the task is in Bratislava, Slovakia. Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleïev (Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев) set up the periodic table of the elements arranged as rays around the sculpture of his […]

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Date: 12. March 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The crocodile at the goldfish pond

Today, MCM talks with Jörg Kleinsteuber (MCM Educator) about the task of the week in Apolda, Germany. If the wooden crocodile would come to life and eat, the goldfish would […]

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Date: 19. February 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | 2 Comments

Task of the Week: Mushroom at the Kaiserdomgymnasium

This time we present a task from Speyer, Germany. The object is a popular sculpture by the artist Wolf Spitzer. “Sigillum”, bronze 1994, seal stamp – planetary gear that turns […]

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Date: 23. January 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Ernst-Abbe monument

The task of the week is this time aboutthe Ernst-Abbe monument in Jena, Germany. How often does the volume of the sphere fit into the truncated pyramid? To solve the […]

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Date: 9. January 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: No Entry

This time the task of the week is on the site of the VW Autostadt in Wolfsburg. Everything is a little smaller on the traffic training ground than it really […]

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Date: 2. January 2019 | By: Moritz Baumann-Wehner | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Circles in the cobblestone

The task is Apolda, Germany. Determine by what percentage the first circle with the dark stones is larger than the inner circle (light stones). To get the solution of the […]

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