We need more math where people can find it, play with it, and enjoy it. Therefore, are excited to introduce our newest project: MathHappens in the Newspaper. Elizabeth Wrightsman and Paola Garcia are heading this project and the rest of the team is contributing ideas, submissions, and landing pages for each week. Below you’ll find an up to date display
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After talking with Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, we began searching for new ideas to interact with Voronoi Diagrams. During our pre-pandemic presentations and events we allowed people to interact with a Voronoi simulation that had been posted on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voronoi_growth_euclidean.gif While brainstorming we decided to buy a flipbook kit and test out what we could do with them. One of our
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We were inspired by a post on Twitter by Olivier Longuet shown below. The object in the photo is an icosahedron, a 20-sided 3D shape, made out of three golden rectangles with side lengths that obey the golden ratio (1:1.618033…). To make a cardboard version of the icosahedron, print out this document and follow the instructions! You can also make
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This is a great example where mathematicians applied some creative thinking to solve a very real world problem. It is Abraham Wald’s Survivorship Bias problem. To help explain the sequence of concepts that lead to his insight, we made some wooden planes to help visualize the problem, and the solution. We start out thinking about the planes that come back
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THE PARABLE OF THE LIFE PRESERVER EXPERIMENT by Phil Siegel There once was a Navy in a country we all know. One of its Admirals had a brilliant idea. If one life preserver works well and saves lives maybe two will work better. So they ran an experiment by throwing sailors into the water and tossing them two life preservers…one
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MathHappens Foundation and STEM Santa Fe partnered together to host a week’s worth of camp sessions for a group of 27 students from March 15-19. Camp sessions were led by MathHappens staff, Lauren Siegel, Josephine Sheng, Elizabeth Wrightsman, Anh Nguyen and Viyang Shah and group discussions were led by a group of facilitators including Naila Hajiyeva, and Quan Nguyen who
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These are cardstock designs, so if you laser cut the pieces they will all stay attached to each other. SVG of Cardstock versions Square to Triangle Square to Hexagon SVG of straight cut lines (square/hexagon is a the parallelogram) And if you are interested, here’s how you make the pieces. Triangle to Square: This transformation was made based on Ernest
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George Washington Carver Museum is hosting Black History Month Kid’s Day on Saturday, March 27th, 2021. They will be hosting the event live via Zoom sessions with special guests and activities. This year’s theme is the Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. You can RSVP for the event here. MathHappens interns, Viyang Shah and Anh Nguyen, worked together to create
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The Buda Public Library is located right in City Hall MathHappens Foundation sponsored math kits to take home and keep as well as, and we also developed 5 themed kits to check out and return which will all debut at the Math All Around Us event. Professor Jennifer Austin from University of Texas is going to present live and answer
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Options for Adding Mathematics connections: Labels on exhibits * Live demonstrations* Make and Take activities * Field Trip programs * Family Activity Area ideas * sculptures and installations. Resource List for Web and in person Mathematics Web and in person: Some organizations who work with museums and in public arenas to provide Mathematics Performances, Events and Experiences. Email addresses will
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