We had a great time presenting to the Fab Educators Summit. Quan Nguyen and I presented a workshop session included five math making projects as well as some examples of ways fab labs can support math teachers and students in schools, libraries and maker spaces. See the slides here. If you or your organization would like to know more about
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The Houston House of Math co-created by MathHappens Foundation and Math to the Point is open to the public on the weekends and scheduling field trips during the week. We have a great team and a beautiful space — these pictures say it all! Team photo: Lauren Siegel, Benjamin Duong, Tristan Krysos, Stefany Espinoza, Georgia Thomsen and Silvia Aldana.
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SE Branch library invited us to participate in their event celebrating music from Kenya. We found a new strategy game two player strategy game called Shisima that is related to tic-tac-toe, that originates from Kenya. Melissa Wilkinson cut and made the design that Stefany Espinoza created. Quan Nguyen and Marianne Villanueva brought the game to SE Branch, participated in some drumming and
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The end result – a whole family visiting the MathHappens Room on a sunny Saturday spending time with these tiles and these puzzle frames – Koch Fractal, Hexagon Challenge and Versatile.. Versatiles are based on the Geometry of circles and so are the 21st Century Pattern Blocks. You can fit 21st Century Pattern Blocks into larger versions of themselves,
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Where can you go to take a destination math Field Trip? The Houston House of Math! Sylvia Adana co-founder of the house and Director of Math2thePoint.org is the creative force behind the outdoor installations and the house itself. MathHappens veteran Ben Duong seen here kicking off this great new resource and leading the learning is our Executive director. Inside, 21st Century Pattern
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Ken Hawthorn, educator and author of The Super Arduino Book who also writes about his teaching, new school and all things maker in MakerAwaker.com collaborated with us by co-hosting in our MathHappens @ The Farmers Market program in summer 2022. He created this event, De-Sign Day and invited MathHappens’ Staff to support the very first one held at one of
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This list is both incomplete and growing, but we’ll continue to add and share. We are interested in helping any organization interested in sponsoring programs, installations and events that bring mathematics to the public conversation, increase access to learning and provide more pathways to positive engagement and success in mathematics and STEM. In 2022 we connected with Silvia Aldana, Director of
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A benefit to collaboration is the sharing of success. As a provider of supplementary mathematics learning experiences, we have been in contact with Breakthrough Central Texas, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary for many years. This past year we were able to connect them with Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Director Daniel Kline who provided opportunities for staff training and previews of
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Dan van der Vieren who uses our Parabola stretchers with his college Algebra classes wondered if we could design a frame to make a hyperbola like this one. As it happens, we had a couple of ideas. The best result was this gear design. You can string the frame with elastic cord with the plate in the top position and
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12-28 Update. We continue to iterate on the Trammel Project. Dr. Sereveny’s students at Riverbend Community Math Center have updated the files with a larger hole for the pencil/pen and they are working on an adjustable arm so we can make multiple shapes (of Ellipses). And they sent Links to the Hardware screws and filament: Hardware: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XRX2F4Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2N32G193BWL7U&psc=1 We use a
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