Date: 30. March 2021 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Volume of the Bulwark

Katalin Retterath is a mathematics teacher and consultant for teaching development in the German fedaral state Rhineland-Palatinate. In the following interview, she introduces us to a task that was created […]

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Date: 1. December 2020 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The Dinosaur’s Suitcase

Melanie Schubert from Goethe University Frankfurt has created the task “The Dinosaur’s Suitcase” and reports in an interview about her experiences with MathCityMap.   Dear Melanie, how did you get […]

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Date: 8. June 2020 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Volume of the Founder’s Building

In Karlsruhe, Germany, we find our new task of the week. Here the student teachers Jessica Milde and Lea Berner have created the task „Volumen der Gründer-Schmiede“ (engl.: “Volume of […]

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Date: 18. May 2020 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: The scooping ‘Dümpfelschöpfer’

The current task of the week is located in Lichtenfels, Germany. In this Franconian town the teacher Jörg Hartmann created the task “Der schöpfende Dümpfelschöpfer“ [engl. “The scooping ‘Dümpfelschöpfer’”] and […]

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Date: 2. March 2020 | By: Simon Barlovits | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: El volumen KIO

Our new Task of the Week was created by Angelica Benito Sualdea and Alvaro Benito Nolla de Celis in Madrid. In the following they will answer us some questions about […]

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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: 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: 20. August 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Water in the Fountain

Fountains and their volume are ideal for modeling different geometric bodies. While many of the fountains have a rectangular or circular shape and can thus be approximated as cuboid or […]

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Date: 30. July 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Diogenes and his Barrel

Doing mathematics surrounded by a fantastic setting – that promises the current Task of the Week to the statue of Diogenes of Sinope. Known as an influential Greek philosopher, he […]

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Date: 2. July 2018 | By: Simone Jablonski | Category:  | No Comments

Task of the Week: Roof

The classical geometric bodies and figures can be found numerously in the environment. However, real objects deviate from the ideal body and require modeling skills. In addition, composite bodies are […]

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