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Educating the PublicEngage visitors with Math!Educating our ChildrenGo on a Math Field Trip!Latest PostsTake and Make: CAMT 2025 Presentation: Playing with Mathematics and ArtJuly 15, 2025This art piece was a part of a traveling exhibit called Geometry of Hope that came to Austin Texas while I was teaching at ACE Academy.  Art teacher Martha Merry and I wanted to collaborate

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AboutA Short Video MathHappens’ Early ProjectsFounded in the fall of 2014 by Philip and Lauren Siegel, MathHappens has been exploring ideas, options, strategies and partnerships to bring math into community conversations here in Austin, elsewhere in Texas, and in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, California and more. In Spring 2022 we opened The MathHappens Math Room in a

Bugfest 2024 Raleigh, North Carolina

Lauren SiegelCommunity Partnerships, Museum, Nature & Science Center, Partner Spotlight, We think math is fun!

Bugfest is the signature annual event for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.  A special section called The Math Neighborhood was organized by Maria Droujkova.  And MathHappens’ own Matt Hertel made the trip to participate in this huge event. Matt brought a selection of MathHappens’ favorite puzzles and activities as well as activities related to bugs, the Butterfly Tessellating