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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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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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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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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Where can you go to take a destination math Field Trip? The Houston House of Math! Sylvia Adana co-founder of the house and Director of Math2thePoint.org is the creative force behind the outdoor installations and the house itself. MathHappens veteran Ben Duong seen here kicking off this great new resource and leading the learning is our Executive director. Inside, 21st Century Pattern
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A benefit to collaboration is the sharing of success. As a provider of supplementary mathematics learning experiences, we have been in contact with Breakthrough Central Texas, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary for many years. This past year we were able to connect them with Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Director Daniel Kline who provided opportunities for staff training and previews of
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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 math2thepoint@gmail.com. Photos by Ben Duong. Houston House of Math is a Featured Story on the Rice Universitity Mathematics Department Page.
Madam Math Circle is cofounded by Sheryl Hsu who completed a really great outreach project for the Alamden Quicksilver Mining Museum early this summer. Sheryl has since requested some table materials and has take them to some local math circles with her colleagues at Madam Math which she cofounded. The next stop will be the Almaden Public Library this
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We are located inside the visitors center at the Austin Nature and Science Center at 2389 Stratford Drive. Admission is free every Saturday from 9 am – 3pm and Sunday from noon – 3pm Come by and take a look, or check out the 2022 Summer Summary here. Some items may change from week to week! More great photos from July
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Kruskal’s Algorithm Minimal Spanning Tree: Railroad Table This project was created by Sheryl Hsu for exhibit at the Almaden Quicksilver Mine and sponsored by MathHappens Foundation. Sheryl wrote us a detailed proposal that described her project, the mathematics she planned to explain and the details of construction. You can read it here. Then she built it! See Sheryl’s video where
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