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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Twins, Mirror Art and Window Chalk!
This is just a quick photo essay on Homeschool “March Mathness” at the Hill Country Science Mill. Abdul, Joshue, Rusheel and Lauren made the hour drive to bring three activities: The Birthday Twin Game, Mirror Art and Reflection Activities, and Window Chalk Constructions. Lots of smiles and a good time overall.
A Fun Wrinkle in Time at the Alamo
We had a great time at the Alamo Drafthouse STEM Fair. We brought some FLEXAHEDRONS and challenged ourselves and visitors to put them together in a finite amount of time.
Pflugerville MS Science Night
Pflugerville MS Science Night is a great opportunity to try some new activities with Middle Schoolers and their Parents. We were excited to be invited back for a second year. We brought our history of land survey in Texas exhibit and we tried a new set up. The exterior needs work, but from the inside its a sheltered space that
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AISD Midwinter Math and Science Conference
We had an opportunity to share our models and most recent field trip ideas at the AISD Math and Science Conference. We presented a session and also loaded two tables with examples of our work.
Welcome Josephine Sheng!
We are so glad to have Josephine Sheng working for MathHappens this spring. She has already been on two site visits, presented to AISD District leaders and made some cool stuff! Here are just a few photos, we need more : )
What we did last summer!
Major accomplishments Summer 2017: Maker Faire – large public event, large number of interactions. Delivered Seminars/Conference Sessions: UTeach Alumni Conference – Playground and Presentation, at Texas State History Museum: Delivered Seminar for Social Studies Teachers, Seminar for AISD Math Teachers, Gained a spot on the Bullock’s guide for Museum Programming options Math Circle Seminar for MS Teachers – assist UT
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Human Sunclock complete at 11:30 CDT Friday August 11!
Where? At the Austin Nature and Science Center! We are very excited to see the Sunclock finished. We were practicing for the layout June 19th and its been almost two hot sweaty months of laser cutting molds for the calendar stones, of assisting Nature Center Exhibits Director Josh Ransom with cement pours and false starts getting the dates just right.
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Production – Calipers for Math Teachers
This summer we are making math materials for teachers as well as museums. These caliper kits are going to a math teacher who saw our presentation at a the UTeach conference. She’s very excited to use them with her class this year.