The weekend of October 20, we were open at the Austin Nature and Science Center, and the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex and provided math activities for Fall Fest for Friends of the Children, a mentorship program in Austin. MathHappens @ Explora was open as well as MathHappens @ Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota. Working this weekend in all our various
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MathHappens @ the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota!
Now open! As of today, MathHappens has a math engagement/play space in the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota. This is a beautiful museum that contains original exhibits designed to connect to every day life in and around Mankato, MN. From corn ears to play pigs, the museum provides the kind of hands-on play-based learning that we love. Play spaces abound
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Take and Make: Smarty Cat
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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Professional Development: Bullock Field Trip and Workshop Visit
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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Colloquium Talk Texas State Math Camps
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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Teacher PD: Field Trip to the La Belle Exhibit
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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MathHappens@Explora! Albuquerque, New Mexico
We are so happy to start this collaboration with Explora! in Albuquerque, NM. Ishtar Rosario Medina, a student at University of New Mexico is coordinating this program and Queen Anderson also a student at UNM (rt below) is going to be a key facilitator. We were also honored to have the founder of CFEMAT, Dr. Hector Rosario at Explora hosting
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2022/2023 Projects, Sponsorships and Collaborations
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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What will you find at the Houston House of Math and our Outreach Events?
Displays, interactive exhibits, logic challenges, building materials and new friends. We hope you’ll come see your yourself. For more information see the links on temporary page at www.houstonhouseofmath.org or contact Sylvia at [email protected]. Photos by Ben Duong. Houston House of Math is a Featured Story on the Rice Universitity Mathematics Department Page.
MathHappens @ Austin Museum Day!
Here’s a link to an interview I did this morning with CBS Austin’s Trevor Scott. MathHappens Foundation is an active participant in the Austin museum community. We have learned a lot in eight years of collaborations about the way museums approach storytelling, sharing knowledge and ideas with an intent to spark interest and start conversations.