This is how practical traditional math classes can be: The Steinm\u00fchle School & Boarding School in Marburg, Hesse, offers a so-called \u201cMath Track,\u201d a project in which students interested in and talented at math can try their hand at proofs and computational models related to practical problems. This year, the project\u2019s theme was \u201cExtreme Value Problems.\u201d Students were challenged to come up with their own problems involving extreme value calculations. <\/p>\n
Leon D\u00f6ringer and Johannes Hufeland, two students from Class 10c, found what they were looking for right in their own backyard: the school cafeteria. There, they came across the DMK milk-mix drinks that are so popular with students, and the challenge was set: How many square centimeters of surface area should a package for 200 ml of contents have in order to use as little material as possible and thus be environmentally friendly? Leon and Johannes performed a rigorous surface area calculation. The result was clear: a minimum of 270cm\u00b2<\/sup> of packaging surface area is needed to optimally\u2014that is, in a material-efficient way\u2014package 200 ml of milk mix drink. This is exactly the surface area that the milk mix drink packaging has. At MILRAM, the experiment itself, as well as the results and the students\u2019 assessment, were met with unanimous enthusiasm. \u201cA great idea that we have to reward,\u201d was the unanimous consensus. And so, in close consultation with the boarding school\u2019s administration, the idea emerged to reward not only the two students but the entire math project for their dedication and their clever, practical calculation model. That\u2019s why MILRAM is treating the entire class to a full breakfast on the first day of the upcoming school year\u2014September 8, 2014\u2014featuring, of course, plenty of delicious and healthy MILRAM products. For MILRAM, this is the perfect way to say \u201cthank you\u201d for an original project and, at the same time, set an example of modern customer engagement. For Sven Kreitz, Head of Food Service Marketing, initiatives like this are a \u201cformula for success that enables direct dialogue with customers and positions MILRAM as a responsive partner.\u201d <\/p>\n (Press release from MILRAM: http:\/\/www.milram-food-service.de\/mein-profibereich\/schulmilch\/matheprojekt.html)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is how practical traditional math classes can be: The Steinm\u00fchle School & Boarding School in Marburg, Hesse, offers a so-called \u201cMath Track,\u201d a project in which students interested in and talented at math can try their hand at proofs and computational models related to practical problems. This year, the project\u2019s theme was \u201cExtreme Value […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48670,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions\/48670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis convinced the two young mathematicians, so they sent the complete calculation model to MILRAM, not without adding in the cover letter: \u201cWe checked whether your packaging is optimally designed. We came to the conclusion that this is 100% the case. We were already enthusiastic about your product because of what\u2019s offered in our school cafeteria, but now that we also know that you\u2019re addressing not only the economic but also the environmental aspects, we\u2019re completely convinced of your product.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n