MathHappens @ SXSW Edu was an opportunity to bring our approach to math enrichment to a world audience. We kicked off the booth with our senior team members: Matt Hertel, Lauren Siegel, Jordan Varat, Melissa Wilkinson and Christopher Danielson who came down to Austin from St. Paul, MN. It was a great way for us to spend some time together
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HEB Free First Sunday at the Texas State History Museum
We love to be a part of free events! This is one of our favorites and Naila Williams, Stefany Espinoza and Taran Kumar had a great time. Every month admission is free at Texas’ flagship museum, and people line up before it even opens. For us it is a chance to engage with the museum, contribute to themed programming (Women
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Feb 24th: MathHappens’ Big Busy Weekend!
On February 24th MathHappens’ four locations were open to the public in Autin, TX at the Nature and Science Center, and Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex, in Mankato, MN at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota and in Albuquerque, NM at Explora! Matt Hertel manages the space at the Nature and Science Center and Millennium and paused a moment to record
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Playing Math at the NCTM Regional in Seattle
We were invited, along with the Seattle Universal Math Museum (SUMM) to host a play space at NCTM’s Regional Conference in Seattle that took place earlier this month. The whole team organized materials, and then Matt Hertel and I met in Seattle ready to play math! Due to the nature of the space, and fire codes and whatnot, we had
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Curve Stitching Parabolas
Does this method of curve stitching make a parabola, or just something that looks kind of parabola-ish? Geometrically, a parabola is the set of points in the plane that are equidistant from a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). The parabola whose focus is the point (0,1), and whose directrix is y= -1 is algebraically defined as y=¼
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Buda Library STEAMfest
165 people of all ages were at the Buda Public Library on January 24 to celebrate Science, Technology, Art and Mathematics. We had something for everyone at our tables. Huston-Tillotson student and MathHappens intern Niela Williams did a great job facilitating and letting the community know about the free Math Room at ANSC. We found out that the librarians in
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Curry Triangle Paradox
Here’s the rap. Me: Can we do a little math together? You: Sure! Me: Here’s a triangle, right? You: Yes. Me: OK. You hold these pieces; I’m gonna swap these, and your job is to fill in the empty space to make the same triangle a different way. … Eventually (anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 minutes later) Us: Oh
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Joint Mathematics Meeting 2024
Christopher Danielson and I headed to SF to help represent Math Communities in the American Institute of Mathematics booth. We had a great time! We gave away hundreds of Curry Triangle Paradoxes, had dozens of conversations about remote internships and programs and shared some of our favorite models and then gave them away in a raffle. Here are some of
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Partner Spotlight: JRMF Festival support.
MathHappens is an operating foundation and we do not usually fund grants, but we do support partners. The program by Daniel Kline at Julia Robinson Mathematics Festivals, JRMF to provide festival experiences to students at Title 1 schools in the bay are is one we are very excited to support. And JRMF dedicated a table at the festivals to some
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Facilitator Spotlight: Austin Bell, Explora Childrens Museum, Albuquerque
Austin Bell is not only a graduate student in mathematics at University of New Mexico, he is very dedicated to and supports a variety of outreach programs for students, teachers and learners of all types . We were fortunate to have him work with Ishtar Rosario to keep the MathHappens Space at Explora open through the 2023/2024 academic year.
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