The project ‘Smartphone Math-Apps in Learning Environments (SMiLE)’ is part of the Global Teacher Research and Education Exchange Program (global.trex) Passau. The DAAD program “Lehramt.International 2019-2022” is the first program exclusively addressing teacher education. The ZLF of the University of Passau applied successfully for funding within this program. The program supports amongst others the mobility of project participants and lecturers and enables a sustainable implementation of mobility corridors in the curricular structure of teacher training. In July 2022 the project was granted a follow up support for another 2 years until 2024.

The Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs is enabling the testing of GeoGebra applications on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones in examinations from the eighth grade up to the Abitur with the school trial CAS in examinations. As part of Project M3, CAS calculators were tested and evaluated in classroom and exam use at the Gymnasium from tenth grade onward until 2013. As a result, CAS calculators were allowed in Bavarian Abitur exams for the first time in 2012.

In the follow-up project CAS in exams, the free GeoGebra software was initially tested on computers in special exam environments in exams. With the development towards powerful GeoGebra applications for tablets and smartphones, the question came into focus to what extent tablets and smartphones can be used with the corresponding GeoGebra apps in exams. In 2018, the use of GeoGebra on tablets in exams, for schools participating in the school trial, was approved. In 2019, the Chair for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Passau proposed to extend the school trial CAS in exams to smartphones and to allow it already from the eighth grade. As part of these innovations, the scientific supervision for this project was assigned to the University of Passau. The project was extended for the last time by two years in August 2022. Ten schools are currently officially involved in this project. The project ended in July 31, 2024. The final evaluation is in progress until 2025.

Official KMBeks of the Ministry of Education:

• KMBek 2012
• KMBek 2014
• KMBek 2016
• KMBek 2018
• KMBeK 2019
• KMBeK 2022