This evening we headed to the Thinkery which is hosting an event for educators. MathHappens interns Paola Garcia, Josephine Sheng and Ben Duong provided information on three field trips that will help teachers help students understand math in context and possibly answer the infamous “so what” question. In addition we will be making and designing with the Spiral of Theodorus.
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Something we’ve been enjoying since the summer is introducing teachers to laser cutters. Teachers are always being creative when making lesson plans so teaching them how to use a laser cutter gives them another resource to use in their creative endeavors. At the end of June, Abdulkarim presented to math teachers at the Math Teachers’ Circle of Austin. He invited
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We had a great time presenting our session – link to powerpoint here, and we look forward to hearing from some of the educator leaders we met here. They work in various countries around the Caribbean as well as the US, England and Europe. We attended their last conference in Boulder, CO in 2015 where we got some inspirations and ideas
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A great group on a rainy Sunday met to learn to use the big Epilog lasers from MakeATX experts Zoe and Devon.
MathHappens branched out today by going to San Antonio, Texas. We were invited to show our math models at the TEKSCon Free Resource Showcase, where educators would be searching for resources they could implement into their schools. We set up at a round table so attendees could sit with us and chat about what MathHappens does. At the same time,
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We had a great time at Breakthrough Central Texas sharing some materials for the upcoming math day on the 19th. The photo summary is in a “form” so I hope you can see it. Its a great group of enthusiastic and talented teachers. Check it out by clicking through here for a review of the Breakthrough Central Texas Teacher Info
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Things are getting busy here at MathHappens as we prep for our biggest weekend of the spring! On May 5th, we have our Shadow Puppet Workshop for teachers and museum professionals. On May 6th, we have our HEB Free Sunday event called MathHappens @ The Bullock. Both events will be featuring Daniel Barash of the Shadow Puppet Workshop. If you are
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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.
We are excited to go to the Bullock today to present some of our current ideas and work to math teachers/department chairs. Handout 1 Math Connections to History Exhibits at the Bullock Handout 2 Displays, Artifacts, Books and Models We hope to help however we can to make these field trips and interdisciplinary opportunities a reality for students. Check out our setup
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Dr. Jennifer Mann Austin came by the MakeATX laser shop today. She’s already taken laser basics training class and is making some models for her University of Texas M302 math class for liberal arts majors and other non-math majors. There’s a super cool Pythagorean Puzzle and she’s cutting some Golden Ratio Calipers and a few other goodies.