"But mathematics isn't a subject for school magazines!"

Why ever not? The simple answer is: Math is not always about swatting, it is not abstract and certainly not as dry as dust. Math is exciting, colorful and fashionably modern. School magazine editors can discover this at one of the research events in the DFG Research Center Matheon under the title "MATHEredaktiON" (Math Editing).

There's a lot going on here

Five times a year, the "MATHEredaktiON" gives young reporters the chance to spend a day at one of the participating institutes discussing and researching their projects and ideas with scientists. In doing so, they can typically discover how the timetable of the subway or the radio networks are optimized for UMTS reception or operation methods are improved thanks to mathematics, why medicines act at the right point in the body, how the formulas are used to create 3D animations for PC games or movie blockbusters, how physical effects influence chips or how "thinking" metals behave in precision tools the size of a pin. The 3D portal of Matheon takes you on a virtual tour through houses or the human body, or allows you to fly over Mars (in 3D of course), and much more.

Of course, "MATHEredaktiON" should also provide inspiration for your magazine articles. As a thank you we shall put an advert in your magazine. And what's more: the best articles will appear on our website.

"MATHEredaktiON" lets you look behind the scenes of technical applications.

You will be surprised just how application oriented mathematics really is! After all, mobile phones, computers and cars or even your television would not work without mathematics.