This year at Austin Nature and Science Centers Museum Day, MathHappens hosted activities relating to Voronoi diagrams and Fibonacci numbers. Thank you to Austin Nature and Science Center staff for helping us prepare for this event and for everyone that came out to Museum Day! Steph Lee and Rashell Soria led the activities at our Voronoi Diagram table. Visitors got to
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At Austin Museum Day 2021, MathHappens hosted a suite of activities at the Pythagorean theorem tables led by Naila Najiyeva, Laila Cook, Quan Nguyen, and Rashell Soria. Visitors were able to see the Pythagorean Theorem Proof and the Sum of Odd Numbers proof. At the tables, they also saw the Penrose stairs and a modern day application of it.
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This past Saturday, we had the pleasure of participating in Temple Public Library’s Museum Day. MathHappens staff Anh Nguyen, Quan Nguyen, and Josephine Sheng hosted a table of activities around Tangrams. Visitors were invited to play with wooden tiles or design their own tiles and take them home to explore further. Thank you to all of Temple Public Library staff
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We are so excited to be back in person this year for Austin Museum Day! This year we will be hosting activities at two locations: Austin Nature and Science Center and Neill-Cochran House.
Austin Museum Day is going to feature an all day program on facebook plus virtual offerings you can access anytime and there are a number of Austin locations that will be open to visit! MathHappens is staying virtual this year, but we are starting a new list of great ways to think about math connections at Austin Museums. These locations
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Stick Stock (Surveyors in Texas before Annexation to the U.S.), ca. 1845, oil on canvas, 14in. x 17 in. framed, Lent by Larry Sheerin, L.2012.2.3 MathHappens is sharing ways that a mathematical device, the survey Chain measurement system invented by Edmund Gunter in the 1600s impacted Texas history as we transitioned- only sort of — from the Mexican Vara
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Mathematical Origami has applications in Medicine as well as space travel, fashion, and more. We made Chompers today along with other mathematical origami structures including simple spirals and the Miuri Ora Map fold. Photo Gallery coming! Resources and Info Several of our files for the 110 cardstock, laser etched designs we gave out on Museum Day are found here in
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Photo Gallery coming soon. The Wildflower center is making giant bubbles for Museum Day, and when bubbles collide we get Voronoi Diagrams. So we made an encore appearance with our microscope and dragonfly wing, pictures of giraffes, mud, turtle shells. Participants will trace out the structure and then use that tracing to make a colorful faux stained glass art piece.
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Huge thank you to Neill-Cochran House for hosting MathHappens for another great Austin Museum Day. Cupcakes, Square Root Spiral hand fans, pythagorean theorem, penrose step, chess, checkers, tic tac toe, this stop has it all! Photo Gallery coming soon! Articles / Resources Making a square root spiral in paper or on paper can be fun. Here’s a blog post that
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We had an amazing time at Austin Nature and Science Center! Photo Gallery to come! At ANSC, we shared with the public ways to understand math through art. We brought out our tessellating pentagons and regular shapes (squares, rectangles, etc.) and invited the public to go through the history that brought us to the 15 irregular tessellating pentagons that we
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