Background

The project „METEOR – Modern Math Trail Experiences for Europe“ aims at ensuring that mobile math trails and outdoor mathematics remain viable in the future. It builds on MathCityMap, an internationally known digital tool developed to support teachers in their work.

The MathCityMap system has two components, a web portal and an app available for smartphones and tablets. In the web portal, users can create tasks and trails which can be public after being reviewed. Moreover, all users can utilize, edit, or combine the tasks of the public trails to create new trails. In February 2026, there were more than 120.000 tasks and 26.000 trails authored by more than 60.000 users in 17 idioms of more than 100 countries. With the MathCityMap app, students can find and explore outdoor trails via codes. When students open a trail, the app guides them, presenting a map with their location, as well as the trail’s tasks. When the students select a task, they must look around for the involved object, obtain the required data and, optionally, ask for some hints. Then they have to present a solution to the selected task, which the system validates by assigning points. Using the web portal interface or app, teachers can follow their students’ progress in real time through the Digital Classroom.

Aim

In former projects, we developed the system MathCityMap (www.mathcitymap.eu) for the target group of researchers (www.momatre.eu), teachers (www.masce.eu) and students (www.matrix-proejct.eu) to research on and organize math trails with and by students. The system has gained in international popularities since the last years. Still, the teachers that we work with wish for more possibilities: easier and AI-supported options to create tasks, conduct lessons through digital classrooms, and provide students with adequate, adaptive support. Thus, we continue developing the system by utilising the new technical possibilities of artificial intelligence.

The METEOR projects aims at:

1. High-quality technical development and framework modernization
2. Implementation of AI elements in the app and web portal
3. Dissemination of the METEOR project and its outcomes
4. Enhancement of user knowledge about artificial intelligence

To reach the project’s aim, different activities and work packages are planned.

The MathCityMap system already exists world-wide. We therefore aim at a continuation of this international view on mathematics education. By comparing national curricula and by merging our national-related teaching expertise, we aim at designing an innovative approach of artifical intelligence supported outdoor learning that meets the requirements of schools, teachers and students all over Europe. Especially the variety of mathematics education in different countries and the variety of expert knowledge among the European partners allows an optimal result in terms of technics, development of materials and dissemination of the project’s results. Our long-term goal is a strong community of mathematics outdoor learning supporting teachers by lowering time and expertise barriers.