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A Wake Up Moment
For the past year, as co-founder of The Global Math Project (theglobalmathproject.org), I have invited—cajoled perhaps—thousands of educators across the planet to introduce to their middle-school, high-school, or college-level students a joyous, uplifting, piece of curriculum-relevant mathematics: the story of Exploding Dots (explodingdots.org). And the enterprise has been an astounding success! At the time of… Read More »A Wake Up Moment
Orlando Trianglethon 2017 (2017 Exhibit)
The Orlando Math Circle volunteers will lead math activities and games, including the creation of triangles for the Trianglethon. The Trianglethon is a community mathematics and arts project that will teach participants about fractals: how an endlessly repeating pattern can create a complex shape through simple repetition of smaller and smaller self-similar triangles. Students, math… Read More »Orlando Trianglethon 2017 (2017 Exhibit)
OSS Mathletes attend Orlando Math Circle Event
OSS mathletes attended an Orlando Math Circle event on Saturday, September 16th. It consisted of a talk and workshop with Dr. Po-Shen Loh, who is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University and coach of USA's Math Olympiad Team. It was a very inspiring session for students of all ages and helped provide a different… Read More »OSS Mathletes attend Orlando Math Circle Event