Remote Intership- Gears by Cole Parsons

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MathHappens has been growing, and we now have locations in four states!  We have partners, employees, and interns working in Texas, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Washington, but we still love being able to offer our remote internship experience to students in any state! This past fall and winter, I had the pleasure of working with Cole Parsons, an engineering student

Today’s Date with Jack and Jill

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We were invited recently to a STEAM Fair in Minneapolis. It took place Saturday, January 25 and was sponsored by a local chapter of Jack and Jill of America, an organization dedicated to nurturing future African-American leaders by working with children and their mothers.  We brought most of our usual favorites—such as butterfly puzzles, and Block by Block, Jr. (a

The Surrounding Game

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Two diagrams. On the left, a blue circle is surrounded by six yellow circles, with gaps between the points of tangency. On the right, a blue square is surrounded by yellow squares, which are then surrounded by a ring of blue squares.

MathHappens intern Asa Grumdahl is interested in Heesch numbers.  Unfortunately, a formal presentation of Heesch numbers and questions surrounding them is too complicated as a starting place to engage the general public. The question then was “How might we engage novices in this sophisticated bit of mathematics?” Step one was to name this activity we were designing. “The Surrounding Game”

Fall Teacher Workshop Hosted by Matt Hertel

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What happens when Mardi Nott, Austin High School Math Department Chair, Academic UIL Coordinator, Mu Alpha Theta Sponsor, Calculator Applications Coach, President of Austin Area Council of Mathematics, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Benin ’91-’94), Member of: Delta Kappa Gamma, PEO, and Epsilon Kappa Omicron member brings a group of teachers to MathHappens Headquarters on a Saturday in mid November? They

MathHappens @ Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park, Dallas, TX

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Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas is a great place!  Their vision is “to provide a safe and natural oasis where the Dallas Community and other visitors can have fun while they Explore, Experience, Entertain, and Educate themselves.”  We  are very excited to be a part of it.  Find out more on their website. From 11 am

Five Short Scenes from the Shape Studio

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A Barbie stands on a platform, looking at herself in two mirrors at a 120° angle, seeing two reflections of herself.

MathHappens has partnered with The Works Museum, an interactive STEM museum in Bloomington, MN to bring The Shape Studio to life the first and third Saturdays of each month. The Shape Studio contains a wide range of mathy fun, including tiling turtles, 21st Century Pattern Blocks, Bubble Tiles, and much, much more! We want to share with you five scenes

Let’s Make Math!

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12 Projects & Endless Hours of Creative, Math-tastic Fun! Check it out. This book was imagined and realized by MathHappens interns Saurav Gandhi and Megan Do. It contains 12 of our favorite topics, beautiful graphics and ideas. We feel really confident it can be a resource for offering math activities in a variety of settings. We are pleased to have

ASTC: Association of Science and Technology Centers Conference

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The ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) Conference brings together science and childrens museums from all over the US with vendors, service providers and colleagues for lectures, workshops and networking.  We had Booth 101, right at the bottom of the escalators and we really enjoyed our time interacting with conference participants as well as the other booth hosts.  We