MathHappens started off Austin Museum Day bright and early by heading to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Visitors thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Golden Ratio and how it appears throughout the world around us. Visitors discovered the Golden Ratio on their arms, hands, in a hurricane, on an ant and zebra, and more! A popular make-and-take activity was coloring
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Museum Day this Sunday!
Austin Museum Day is coming up this Sunday, September 23rd! Click here to see our flyer for more details! We hope to see you there. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 4801 La Crosse Avenue, (512) 232-0100, www.wildflower.org MathHappens Activity Station (9-11am): Search for the Golden Ratio by the creek in the Family Garden. Neill-Cochran House Museum 2310 San Gabriel Street, (512)
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Big Week!
This week is a big week for MathHappens. On Tuesday, we will be presenting a session at the AISD Language Arts & Social Studies Institute. Our session is titled “Connecting Language Arts and Social Studies with Mathematics.” We’ll be talking about the Vitruvian Men, Gulliver’s Travels, navigation tools, and our field trip offerings, all of which relate to mathematics. We’ll
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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
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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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
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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Getting Ready for the Shadow Puppet Workshop and HEB Free Sunday
Things are getting busy here at MathHappens as we prep for our biggest weekend of the spring! On May 5th, we have our Shadow Puppet Workshop for teachers and museum professionals. On May 6th, we have our HEB Free Sunday event called MathHappens @ The Bullock. Both events will be featuring Daniel Barash of the Shadow Puppet Workshop. If you are
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