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At the invitation of Stiftung Rechnen and EuroScience, Iwan Gurjanow and Matthias Ludwig spent two days in Kappeln in Schleswig-Holstein at the Baltic Sea to create MCM Mathtrails for a vacation project.

The Stiftung Rechnen and EuroScience will hold from 08.07. – 12.08 the interactive exhibition Mathe Magie. To do this, the working group MATIS I was asked to create various MCM trails in the city at the Schlei. Of course, this was not a question for us: we would like to support the project and created 27 new tasks in Kappeln at the beginning of June.

The photo shows : Jeanette Schuppe-Krahn (EuroScience), Henning Mittelmann (Mittelmanns Werft), Matthias Ludwig, Iwan Gurjanow (both Goethe University), Bodo Meusel (EuroScience), Lara Zemite (Wirtschaft und Touristik Kappeln GmbH), Matthias Mau.

On Tuesday, 23.05.2017, members of the MCM team were invited by the research team of the University of Münster to create a Math Trail in the north of the Aasee. They also informed interested teachers about the basic didactic theories as well as the technical possibilities of the MCM project. 28 teachers and interested people followed the invitation and, according to the theory, tested the app and the tasks of the route Aasee Nord.

In this summer semester, students (for becoming a teacher in mathematics) at Goethe University Frankfurt again have the opportunity to take part in the Mathtrail seminar as a special event in order to get to know the advantages of outdoor mathematics. Before the participants will develop their own tasks and trails, they should experience how it feels to make mathematics outside the classroom. This Thursday , the course took place at the Mainufer near the ECB in order to run the trail in the “Im Schatten der EZB“, which was created and tested a year ago by the Mathtrail seminar, with help of the MCM app.

In the end, everyone agreed that a mathtrail can be a lot of fun and time can fly when one solves the math problem outside the classroom. However, it has also become clear that it is not so easy to develop good tasks, because the boundary between challenge and frustration can already be exceeded through a narrow solution interval.

In the coming weeks, students will be familiar with the MathCityMap system and then implement their own trail. We are curious!

P.S.: The weather was good as always! ?

Being part of the “Day of Mathematics and Natural Sciences” in Saxony, the MathCityMap team held a course on outdoor mathematics with MCM. The “Sächsische Bildungsinstitut” (SBI) invited to this event on 9th March 2017 in Meißen at Schloss Siebeneichen. 24 participants took part in the workshop and were able to solve mathematical problems and questions around the castle. For example, one had to find out how high the tower of the castle is or how many liters of water fit into the pool. In the second part of the course, the teachers were able to search for own mathematical tasks in the environment and to create them in the portal.

We hope that the participants had a lot of fun and got some ideas for their own lessons. We are already looking forward to tasks and trails that will follow from this event.

Are you interested in workshops on outdoor mathematics with MathCityMap? Take a look at our event page.

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