Date: 5. February 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Generic Tasks: Slope

Our first focus on generic tasks, meaning tasks that can be created in any location with similar objects, is on the subject of slopes. This topic has relevance for math […]

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Date: 29. January 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

MCM Themed Week: Generic Tasks

MathCityMap stands for outdoor mathematics, authentic tasks, physical activity, new technologies and teamwork. And we assert: The combination of these aspects works (almost) everywhere and just like magic … … […]

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Date: 22. January 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Glass Roofing

Today’s object – found in Hamburg – requires the recognition of different quadrilateral shapes as well as a fitting division into several subareas. Task: Glass roofing (task number: 2148) How […]

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Date: 15. January 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Slope of the Helix

In the new year, we would like to continue introducing interesting tasks and topics from the MathCityMap task portal. It starts with a task from Qatar, which was created as […]

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Date: 8. January 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

MathCityMap goes to Mumbai

At the beginning of the year, MathCityMap and research results were presented at an international STEM conference in Mumbai, India. Matthias Ludwig spoke at the epiSTEME 7 on 7th January […]

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Date: 20. December 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

MCM in Münsterland

MathCityMap is very popular in Münster. In an article, written by Simone Mäteling, it is described how MCM is integrated into the project “Expedition Münsterland”. You can read more in […]

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Date: 18. December 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Packing Station

With a task from the Christmas Trail, we would like to present the last “Task of the Week” this year and draw attention to the possibility of addressing probabilities in […]

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Date: 15. December 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

MCM is part of a project at Münster University

During summer, we visited Münster University. Even the WDR (a German TV station) reported on this. Since that, the work group headed by Stanislaw Schukaljow has developed several tasks and […]

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Date: 11. December 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Arched Greenhouse

As a task creator for MathCityMap, it is important to look at the environment through “mathematical glasses”. Thus, buildings become cuboids, lawns become polygons or – as in the current […]

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Date: 4. December 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Height of the Building

Through cooperation with the MOOC Working Group of the University of Turin, we are looking forward to the first MCM tasks in Italy, which is part of today’s Task of […]

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