MATHE.ENTDECKER | MathCityMap

In the past months of July and August, the MathCityMap team from Frankfurt visited the German city of Zwönitz. Here our team created a total of 17 new trails, which were now officially opened and published!

With the support of Stiftung Rechnen, the town of Zwönitz and its Smart City Zwönitz project, we have created Math.Discoverer trails (Mathe.Entdecker-Pfade) for classes and families in and around the town, which is located in the middle of the Ore Mountains. On the website of Stiftung Rechnen and in a video report by erzTV, you can find more background information about the Math.Discoverer paths and the Smart City Zwönitz project.

The Mathtrails lead through different parts of the Smart City Zwönitz: the city center, past the train station and through the Austelpark, along the Sendigmühle and the Knochenstampfe. The grand opening with school classes trying out the Mathtrails took place on 12.10.2021 in the presence of the mayor of the city of Zwönitz. You can find a flyer with descriptions of the trails here.

Below we list all our created trails in Zwönitz. We wish you a lot of fun and success trying them out!

Title incl. Link	Code	Duration \| Distance
Eröffnungstrail Klasse 5 [Opening Trail – Grade 5]	156358	2h 20 min \| 700 m
Eröffnung Klasse 6 [Opening Trail – Grade 6]	476359	1h 40 min \| 800 m
Innenstadt Familie [City Center for families]	696049	2h 50 min \| 1.300 m
Innenstadt Klasse 3/4 [City Center – Grade 3/4]	496048	2h 40 min \| 1.300 m
Innenstadt Klasse 5-7 [City Center – Grade 5-7]	046050	2h 30 min \| 1.400 m
Innenstadt Klasse 8-10 [City Center – Grade 8-10]	056052	2h 30 min \| 1.000 m
Zwönitz für Familien 3/4 [Zwönitz for families – Grades 3/4]	255938	1h 40 min \| 1.600 m
Zwönitz für Familien 5/6/7 [Zwönitz for families – Grades 5/6/7]	085939	2h 20 min \| 1.600 m
Austelpark Familie [Austelpark for families]	466044	2h 00 min \| 900 m
Austelpark Klasse 3/4 [Austelpark – Grades 3/4]	292265	1h 20 min \| 700 m
Austelpark 5/6/7 [Austelpark – Grades 5/6/7]	026046	2h 10 min \| 800 m
Austelpark 9/10 [Austelpark – Grades 9/10]	296047	2h 00 min \| 900 m
Ziegenberg Familie [Ziegenberg for families]	786039	2h 00 min \| 1.300 m
Ziegenberg Klasse 7/8 [Ziegenberg – Grades 7/8]	896038	2h 00 min \| 1.400 m
Ziegenberg Klasse 9/10 [Ziegenberg – Grades 9/10]	576040	2h 00 min \| 1.300 m
Knochenstampfe Familie [Knochenstampfe for families]	136043	1h 50 min \| 200 m
Knochenstampfe Klasse 5/6 [Knochenstampfe – Grades 5/6]	036042	1h 50 min \| 200 m

Philipp, Simon, Ken and Simone from the MathCityMap team (picture below left) as well as impressions of the city of Zwönitz.

The MathCityMap team visited the beautiful Zwönitz in the Ore Mountains last week. There, Simone, Philipp, Ken and Simon looked out for numerous exciting tasks.

As part of the Mathe.Entdecker project of Stiftung Rechnen, a variety of interesting and challenging math trails for all grades are being created in Zwönitz.

Here is already a small foretaste of the content of the tasks:

Do you know the legend of the headless horseman?
Do you know what ‘Klöppeln’ is?
Or when the coal mine in Zwönitz was closed down?

We are already looking forward to the opening of the Mathtrails in Zwönitz!

Last October, the MathCityMap team from Frankfurt visited the city of Constance [dt. Konstanz]. At Lake Constance our team is laying out a total of 14 new trails, which will be released today!

With the support of the Stiftung Rechnen and the city of Constance we have created many interesting math trails for classes and families in the beautiful city of Konstanz. The Mathe.Entdecker trails [engl. Discovering.Maths trails] lead around the harbour, along the Rhine promenade, through the city centre or through the Paradise Quarter. In addition, a “border trail” was created on the German-Swiss border. However, the grand opening with school classes trying out the mathtrails had to be cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. With the following links you can access the articles of Stiftung Rechnen and Marketing und Tourismus Konstanz GmbH about our new math trails.

In the following we list all our created trails in Konstanz. We wish you a lot of fun and success!

Titel incl. Link	Code	Duration\| Distance
Konstanz Innenstadttrail [Around the City of Constance]	672257	2h 10 min \| 1.400 m
Konstanz Hafentrail [Around the Harbour of Constance]	022256	2h 20 min \| 1.100 m
Konstanz Grenztrail [Along the Swiss-German Border]	492255	2h 10 min \| 1.700 m
Ein Nachmittag in Konstanz [An Afternoon in Constance]	352258	4h 20 min \| 3.400 m
Mathe für Entdecker – Klasse 3/4 [Discovering Maths – Grade 3/4]	472261	1h 30 min \| 1.000 m
Konstanz Familie – Klasse 3/4 [Families in Constance – Grade 3/4]	452260	2h 50 min \| 3.400 m
Mathe am Rhein – Klasse 5/6 [Maths along the Rhine – Grade 3/4]	472262	2h 20 min \| 2.200 m
Quer durch Konstanz – Klasse 5/6 [Across Constance – Grade 5/6]	092264	2h 10 min \| 1.500 m
Konstanz Familie – Klasse 5/6 [Families in Constance – Grade 5/6]	562263	3h 00 min \| 3.300 m
Mathe im Paradies – Klasse 7/8 [Maths in Paradise – Grade 7/8]	292265	1h 40 min \| 1.300 m
Quer durch Konstanz – Klasse 7/8 [Across Constance – Grade 7/8]	072277	2h 10 min \| 1.500 m
Mathe am Rhein – Klasse 7/8 [Maths along the Rhine – Grade 7/8]	192276	1h 50 min \| 700 m
Mathe am Rhein – Klasse 9/10 [Maths along the Rhine – Grade 9/10]	132259	2h 10 min \| 1.400 m
Mathe im Paradies – Klasse 9/10 [Maths in Paradise – Grade 9/10]	132267	2h 40 min \| 1.900 m

Iwan, Simone, Gregor and Simon from the MathCityMap team (picture top right) and our team with officials from the city of Konstanz (bottom left).

Also in the regional edition of BILD Zeitung Stuttgart, MathCityMap and the opening of the MATHE.ENTDECKER trails around Stuttgart’s stock exchange were mentioned. In the category “What we rejoice in” it said:

This makes learning fun. From now on, four new “Mathe.Entdecker Trails” exist around Stuttgart’s stock exchange. In the app MathCityMap, objects and places become vivid math tasks.

We can only agree with this statement!

Already in the last week, we reported on the opening of the MATHE.ENTDECKER trails around Stuttgart’s stock exchange. We are happy that the event was also reported in the Stuttgarter Zeitung at the 20.04.2018 and would like to share this article with you:

High school students on the math path

School students use a smartphone and corresponding app to solve practical tasks. Uli Meyer

Many people are wrong being confronted with the question of how big a person would be with a head the size of the sculpture of the thinker. Five meters? Or six? 24 students of Johann Philipp Palm School cannot rely on their feeling or a vague estimate. They have to calculate an exact result. The 11th graders of the Schorndorfer Wirtschaftsgymnasium start with measuring tape and calculator and begin their mathematical calculations. Incidentally, the human would be just over ten meters tall, which the students calculate with help of the app. Managing Director of Stuttgart’s stock exchange, Oliver Hans, and Matthias Ludwig and Simone Jablonski from the Goethe University Frankfurt watch the happenings, because the aspiring high school students are the first to complete the so-called math discovery trail. Around the stock exchange, Ludwig and Jablonski and their staff of the Institute for Didactics of Mathematics and Computer Science have created four such trails. They vary in difficulty and challenge different ages, like the steel wheel and 14 other tricky tasks. “The Math Trail idea is already old and was developed in 1984 in Australia. Our new approach is that we combine it with an app for smartphones, “says Ludwig about the new offer for schools, but also for the very private, individual use.

Together with Stiftung Rechnen, where Stuttgart’s stock exchange is a founding member, Ludwig’s institute has developed the MathCityMap platform. This website is translated in eleven languages, because it has become an international project with partners in several countries. “Worldwide, we have 600 trails with around 3000 individual tasks in the system,” says Ludwig. One encounters it “through creativity and through the world with eyes open”. A circumstance that is also important to Oliver Hans: “Mathematics surrounds us permanently in our daily lives.” Stiftung Rechen would like to interest people in mathematics, to reduce fear of contact and to convey joy in dealing with numbers. “Arithmetic is a cultural technique as well as reading”, Hans and Ludwig agree. Not all students were enthusiastic when they completed Stuttgart’s first math discovery trail. But for many, this practical application of mathematical tasks seems more interesting than a math lesson. Their teacher, Thomas Blum, watches his students with a smile on their faces as they study the steel wheel: “They must work out principles as to how they can come to a solution.” The learning effect is as great as the fun.

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