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

Task of the Week: Giant Keyhole

Our Task of the Week was created by Vanessa Präg, student at Goethe University Frankfurt, as part of a mathematics didactic course. In a short interview, she will tell us […]

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Date: 19. February 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Parabolic Slide

Although the focus of many MCM tasks is on lower secondary maths, some upper secondary level tasks can also be realised. So our current Task of the Week, which was […]

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Date: 12. February 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Grass Field

At the beginning of the year, MCM was successfully presented in Mumbai. Of course, in this context the first Indian Math Trail was created, from which our current task of […]

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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: 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: 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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Date: 27. November 2017 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Red Area

In this year’s autumn, numerous tasks were created in Wilhelmsburg, district of Hamburg. The tasks are very convincing – especially in the context of the MCM concept – through their […]

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

Task of the Week: Tafelberg’s Monument

As a few weeks ago, the Task of the Week leads us to the African continent, more precisely to the approximately 1000-meter-high Tafelberg in Cape Town. There you can find […]

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