Field Trips “Where there’s history, invention, chance, curiosity and purpose… there’s a compelling math connection.”MathHappens develops custom field trip programs that connect mathematics to history, science, and culture. Each trip is designed to give students hands-on experiences that make math relevant and memorable — in museums, archives, and nature centers. Below are a few examples of field trips we’ve created.
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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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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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Field Trip: Austin High Biomimicry Cross Curricular Program
We had the pleasure of providing 3 of 6 rotations for this field trip for 150 students to the Austin Nature and Science Center. Students are learning about biomimicry. That is looking to strategies and physical formations in nature to develop ideas for engineering and invention in the man made world. Station 1: Voronoi Regions in turtle shells, dragonfly wings,
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Houston House of Math – 1st Field Trip!
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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Austin High Field Trip – Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers
Destination: Austin Nature and Science Center Three components: Build Golden Ratio Calipers Build a family tree for Bees (Drones have one parent, Queens have 2) Use the Calipers in the Nature and Science Center
TAG Field Trip Austin Nature and Science Center
This group surprised us! These 5th graders worked on a voronoi map, observed voronoi patterns in a microscope and on animals and participated in a lively discussion on cholera and epidemiology. When we got to the iPad demo of circles colliding one young man watching the patterns emerge from colliding circles said “this is so satisfying”. With overcast skies, we
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Field Trip: Voronoi Diagrams, Koch Fractals, Golden Ratio.
We had a great program and group of students at our latest field trip at the Austin Nature and Science Center. On this field trip we started with a whole group activity where we simulated a Voronoi diagram. Each new participant has to find a path that is equidistant from the nearest two others. Next time we’ll find some shoe
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Navigation Field Trip Fall 2018
We welcomed Miss Mardi back to the Bullock for a navigation field trip with another group of Austin High School students! Favorite Quote: “It was pretty cool learning about the history, which surprised me because I usually don’t like history” This field trip like others to the Bullock La Belle exhibit involved students “sailing” or carrying their ship to ports
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Comments on conference sessions and field trips.
We have been presenting at conferences, providing programming for math field trips, sending out math materials and collaborating with museums! I can’t thank you enough for the items you made for me through MathHappens. If you are still making items I have a big list. I have several in-service teachers willing to write grants to get classroom sets if you
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