We are excited to share the MathHappens @ The Bullock field trip collaboration with a cross disciplinary (history and mathematics) teacher team from Killeen ISD. As a history museum and home to La Belle, a French ship that sailed across the Atlantic in the 1600s landing in Matagora Bay off the Texas coast, The Bullock is a perfect place to
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We had the pleasure of providing 3 of 6 rotations for this field trip for 150 students to the Austin Nature and Science Center. Students are learning about biomimicry. That is looking to strategies and physical formations in nature to develop ideas for engineering and invention in the man made world. Station 1: Voronoi Regions in turtle shells, dragonfly wings,
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On site in Austin to celebrate on Feb 18: Teacher Julie Wu, MH Admin Melissa Wilkinson and Lauren Siegel; UT and UTeach students Ella Basken, Matt Hertel, Laura Choi and Quan Nguyen; Stefany Espinoza and Marianne Villanueva. Matt has managed the room since June 2022. Putting a math room in a public place of play, learning and nature is a
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The Houston House of Math co-created by MathHappens Foundation and Math to the Point is open to the public on the weekends and scheduling field trips during the week. We have a great team and a beautiful space — these pictures say it all! Team photo: Lauren Siegel, Benjamin Duong, Tristan Krysos, Stefany Espinoza, Georgia Thomsen and Silvia Aldana.
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This list is both incomplete and growing, but we’ll continue to add and share. We are interested in helping any organization interested in sponsoring programs, installations and events that bring mathematics to the public conversation, increase access to learning and provide more pathways to positive engagement and success in mathematics and STEM. This is a busy table runner! And it represents
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We don’t normally go into schools for regular programming, but this was a special event and almost like an in school field trip with lots of rotations. We brought activities for 2nd graders, 3rd graders and 4th graders. 3rd graders explored designing with mirror books, 2nd graders worked with Koch fractals and Golden Ratio tiles and the 4th graders
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If you are a fan of museums, then you have seen something like this object before… probably dozens of times. This impressive artifact is a nocturnal from La Belle and it can be used to tell time at night by the positions of the stars. As historic artifacts and symbols of exploration and discovery, navigation tools like this one spark
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Elizabeth Lay, Claire Steffen and I had the opportunity to present a webinar through the Texas Historical Commission today. We discussed ways that museums can enhance visitor experiences with math, showed a variety of examples of math activities at museum locations and talked about our process in developing connected activities. Our Presentation Slides are here The Handout Recording Hosted by
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Nina and I met little people and big people, families and even a Boy Scout Troup on what turned out to be a math field trip from Houston. They designed with tiles, created polygons and pizzas with hinged mirrors, and explored fractal patterns at the magnet board and by drawing and designing. It was a great Saturday!
Have you seen it? MathHappens was happy to support a San Francisco Bay Area stop for Matheatre’s Calculus the Musical. Xiaojie Zhang teaches calculus at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. It was because of Ms. Zhang’s enthusiasm (and a few speedy emails to her principal’s office) that Matheatre could make Skyline High a special stop on their 2020 tour. More
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