Smarty Cat was a toy from the 1950s. It’s not really a slide rule, but it does show you all the math facts from 2×2 to 9×9. As you go you need fewer and fewer numbers because 9×2 is already in as 2×9 for example. We are giving away sets where you can draw your own cat/mouse/ghost or whatever animal
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This summer, four students from Texas State University and the Breakthrough Central Texas program, Alexa Hernandez-Lopez (Biology), Jaiden Suda (Marketing), Dayanara Renteria (Biology), and Kriti Magar (Nursing), joined MathHappens for a summer internship program. Over the course of the summer, these students had the opportunity to engage in multiple aspects of the MathHappens internship experience. Aspects of the internship included,
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Matt Hertel, Jordan Varat and Tyson Geigenmiller hosted Ms. Mardi Nott’s Austin High math department offsite meeting. The AISD math teachers toured our facility and learned about our laser and how we use technology to create physical math models that promote math literacy. The teachers left with new ideas on how to communicate math effectively and with new models to
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We are really excited about MathFest 2023! MathHappens Foundation has a booth — please come and see us! We are giving away a variety of models that will not only be fun for you, but we hope will inspire you to have fun with others talking about interesting math. The whole team in Austin has pitched in to prepare for
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Update: Ella Basken created this Presi slideshow of her conference experience. Its great! At the Construct 3d 2023 conference in NY Ella and Jordan are presenting a variety of models and a poster about the use of these models to enhance mathematics education. You can contact Ella at: ebasken@utexas.edu and Jordan at: jordan@varatenterprises.com Ella is our 3d print expert and
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We had a great visit to the Pearl Street workshop and gallery today by professor Dawn Kidd, an Adjunct Instructor at Lamar University. Her students are preservice teachers who will be teaching deaf and hard of hearing students. They started with a workshop visit with Jordan where they learned how to make a heart – square- circle dissection model. Ella
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We have been sharing ideas, materials, CAD files and finished models with a variety of partners. The folks at SUMM, the Seattle Universal Math Museum has been bringing math activities to the greater Seattle area as well as attending teaching conferences and hosting events. These photos are exciting for us because SUMM partnered with a local makerspace, sourced and manufactured
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It was an honor and a pleasure to give a colloquium address for the math campers at Texas Mathworks Honors Summer Math Camp on June 9 2023. We brought the following items for each of the students with enough for camp staff as well. In the talk we shared some of the ways we use these models for math outreach.
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Kylie Schmidt, account manager at Google in Austin arranged for a volunteer group of nine to visit our new location to build some models with our team members. On hand from MathHappens were Georgia Thomsen, Melissa Wilkinson, Alexa Hernandez, Jaiden Suda, Megan Do, Tyson Geigenmiller, Stefany Espinoza and Jordan Varat. Our time together included a visit to the workshop where
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What and who is at the Millenium Math Area? MathHappens Team: Alexa Hernandez-Lopez, Jaiden Suda, Kriti Magar, and Dayanara Renteria launched this space with mentor Matt Hertel. All our staff are taking spots in the rotation. We also feature a carpet to play with a Jumbo Blocks Jr. set, a Julia Robinson Math Festival maze mat, optical illusions for photos,
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