TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ludwig, Matthias
A1  - Jesberg, Jens
T1  - Using mobile technology to provide outdoor modelling tasks - the MathCityMap-Project
T2  - Procedia : social and behavioral sciences
N2  - Linking mathematics with reality is not new. It is also not new to use outdoor activities to learn mathematics. It seems to be new, to combine such mathematical outdoor activities with mobile technology, like the geocache community which makes use of GPS technology to guide their members to special places and points of interest. The use of mobile technologies to learn at any time and any location is known as “mobile learning”. This type of learning can be seen as an extension of eLearning. Considering the definition of O’Malley one notices that this definition does not exactly match with the idea of the MathCityMap-Project (MCM), because the learning environment in the MCM-Project is predetermined. Combined with the math trail method the project enables mobile learning within math trails with latest technology.In the MCM-Project students experience mathematics at real places and within real situations in out-of-school activities,with help of GPS-enabled smartphones and special math problems. In contrast to the paper versions of math trails we are able to give direct feedback on the solutions by using “mobile devices” such as smartphones or tablets. If the user has difficulties in solving the modeling task, stepped hints can be provided. The teacher is able to use the MCM-Portal to upload tasks developed by himself or by his students and he is also able to build a personal math trail for his students.
KW  - outdoor activities
KW  - mathematics education
KW  - real world problems ;
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/75922
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-759224
SN  - 1877-0428
VL  - 191
SP  - 2776
EP  - 2781
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -