Amazing Unusual Math Games
MathHappens at the Bullock featured a game area on the 2nd floor balcony with an array of unusual math games along with the cannon ball stacking and mirror activity. If you’d like to find an unusual, interesting, fun and math oriented game, check these out! The document contains links on where to get the games and pictures as well
1:1, 1:2, 1:1.618 Calipers Explained!
Click Here to see Abdulkarim Bora, MathHappens Project Manager briefly explaining why we love proportional calipers!
Comments on conference sessions and field trips.
We have been presenting at conferences, providing programming for math field trips, sending out math materials and collaborating with museums! I can’t thank you enough for the items you made for me through MathHappens. If you are still making items I have a big list. I have several in-service teachers willing to write grants to get classroom sets if you
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Pfun Times at Maker Pfest!
We had a great time at Maker Pfest this past Saturday! The Pflugerville Public Library is a beautiful community space and we were pleased to see so many excited visitors at Maker Pfest. Abdulkarim and Arami, both part of the UTeach Maker program, staffed the event. Abdulkarim talked to visitors about the golden ratio calipers and how this ratio shows
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A few of our favorite things…
We are working on a larger list of fun math things, but these are definitely in the top 10.
Everyday Superhumans
Whoo hoo! I’m so pleased for MathHappens to be on the roster of this fun podcast along with Josh Ransom of the Nature and Science Center. Everyday Superhumans features not for profits and the things they do in Austin. This was my first podcast and I’m currently looking for a voice coach : ) Read their newsletter and link to
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MathHappened @ The Bullock and MakerFaire Austin in one Weekend!
Team: Abdulkarim Bora, Josephine Sheng, Alex Li, Joshue Alvarez, Rusheel Guduru, Michelle Tat, Quan Vuong
We made some math – browse our collection here!
We have been hard at work on our MathHappens Catalog! The document is not nearly done and is only an initial, rough draft of what we hope to design into a polished, published version we can have on the website and hand out as a physical copy. We hope to provide these items to as many interested teachers and educators as
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Upcoming Blog Posts!
Aside from working on our MathHappens Catalog, we will soon be posting blog entries about our highly successful recent events. These include: the Shadow Puppet Workshop, Maker Faire, MathHappens @ The Bullock, Austin’s first math festival in a history museum, and our navigation field trips with middle and high school students. Below is a sneak peek at some of the pictures from these events. Shadow
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