12 Projects & Endless Hours of Creative, Math-tastic Fun! Check it out. This book was imagined and realized by MathHappens interns Saurav Gandhi and Megan Do. It contains 12 of our favorite topics, beautiful graphics and ideas. We feel really confident it can be a resource for offering math activities in a variety of settings. We are pleased to have
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For the past two years we have participated actively with our SE Branch library community by providing activities at events ranging form Cinco de Mayo celebrations, after school and summer programs, El Día de los Muertos, and holiday festivities of all kinds. We also have been invited to author readings and this was a really fun one. Dia de Los
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Ascent Academy is part of the Acton Academy family of schools. A signature event for Acton is the Children’s Business Fair. Businesses are created and launched by children and showcased at the Fair where visitors can purchase their products. MathHappens were invited to provide a pop up mathematical play space by the organizers of the event at Ascent Academy in
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Texas A & M University (TAMU) provides a robust math circle program for the community with approximately 50 student participants at three levels, Pre-Algebra, Algebra/Geometry and Algebra II and above. We were pleased to be invited to provide the program on November 18, 2023. We started with some free play that included a balance scale with base 2 and base
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The T-Puzzle is a very old puzzle and it comes in several versions. In the version we made, the width and height are the same. Jordan Varat cut a board with silhouettes as puzzles that we will send to our math rooms in Austin, Mankato and Albuquerque. Megan Do worked on the CAD files and created the printable silhouettes
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Melissa Wilkinson and Megan Do were at the Pflugerville Public Library Maker Pfest Event June 3rd to share some of our favorite maker projects, including the brand new Spectre tile, puzzle a day, egg tangrams, cars with unusual wheels and more with this community just north of Austin. Unlike the old “new” tile, this one tessellates without a pattern and
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We love partnerships that offer opportunities to learn to everyone! We are so pleased to have received an email and a link to a presentation about a math evening planned in part with our materials. The organizer shared some ways she used our materials and we can see them in the slide show she created. We highly recommend Blocks
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This conference was a great opportunity to meet some bright young people running poster sessions, hear some talks on NSF initiatives in STEM education and network with other exhibitors all in the John’s Hopkins Physics Building. Matt Hertel, coordinator of the MathHappens Room at Austin Nature and Science Center and MathHappens Co-Founder and board member Phil Siegel were both there.
It was great to return to Cedar Creek Elementary March 3, one year later with Matt Hertel, Megan Do, and Quan Nguyen. The students do all of their math work on iPads and lessons are taught on a smart board so we were excited to bring them some physical activities. Fourth graders had a chance to explore the 21st Century
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