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Social Media


Math Walks ages 3 and up

Here are some sample social media links that describe math walks and other activities we do with the youngest learners.

Subitizing

Math walk at a botanical garden with a 3-year-old focused on subitizing or counting by pattern

Parity

Considering parity (even and odd) on a math walk with a 3-year-old

Symmetry and parity

Exploring symmery and parity with a 2nd grader at a botanical garden

Form and function

Exploring form and function downtown

Aesthetics

Art walk exploring aesthetics and math

Art

Exploring mathematical ideas of infinity and symmetry in art


Elementary Grade Math Activities

Here are some sample social media links that describe activities for elementary school students.

1st & 2nd Grade Math Circle Topics

We introduce diverse topics early

Integer Partitions

2nd graders enthusiastically finding integer partitions

Tiling with the Einstein Hat

2nd and 4th graders tiling with the recently discovered aperiodic monotile 13-sided "Einstein Hat", the first such to fill a plane with a non-repeating pattern from a single shape

Enacting big numbers

1st grader building Pascal's Triangle out of blocks showing how large the numbers become

Pizza Numbers

How many pieces of pizza (or uttapam) can you make with straight cuts? Check out the video of an attempt here, as well.

Estimating (online tutoring)

1st grader estimating count of tangerines during online tutoring

What is the largest amount of money we can't make with several coins?

Frobenius Coin Problem

If you lived in a country where the coins were 3¢ and 11¢, are there a lot of amounts (like 1¢, 2¢, 4¢, 5¢, and 7¢) that you can't make? What's the largest amount you can't make?

Voting

2nd grader applying the idea of the Electoral College to a classroom selecting a film

2nd grade peeks into discrete math

2nd grader's notes about Traveling Saleswoman Problem and Integer Partition Problem

3rd grade Fermi Estimating

3rd graders estimating the number of slices of pizza or South Indian dosas eaten in the United States, among other things

4th grade illustrated fractions story

4th graders made illustrated stories about fractions; one was clearly influenced by Ben Orlin who was delighted to see the story

Indeterminacy, probability, and induction with geometric play

Kindergarteners through 3rd graders touching on concepts like indeterminacy, probability, & induction, before playing with geometry in a summer math circle


Middle School Math Fun

Here are some sample social media links that describe activities for elementary school students.

Math games and puzzles

Summer camp fun with rising 5th and 6th graders

Prealgebra explorations of probability: Birthday Paradox, Buffon's Needle

The Birthday Paradox is surprising to many; Buffon's Needle provides a way to estimate π by tossing pasta at a piece of paper

Demonstrating why slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals

Students used scissors and paper to demonstrate why any two lines (except horizontal and vertical ones) have slopes that are negative reciprocals of each other


High School Joy of Math

We enjoy fun math activities with high school students like exploring quirks of famous mathematicians, learning easy and cool ways to factor quadratics that are not so well known, doing geometric explorations, making origami, and more.


Remarkable Math

We get amazing students who often go beyond and pursue their own exciting math explorations.

2nd grader demonstrating cubing a+b

This 2nd grader made a video demonstrating the algebraic concepts of cubing a+b but by physically doing it with blocks instead of using algebra.

2nd grader finding common nth difference is n factorial (n!)

Students figured out that when we raise a number to the nth power, it takes n differences to become a constant, but this 2nd grader knew about and applied factorials to find the actual constant! Several students explored on their own what amounts to a discrete case of Taylor Series, studied in second semester calculus.

2nd grader and her mother's creative song to remember a date algorithm

There is a fun "Doomsday Rule" that one can use to find the day of week for a date but you need an "anchor" day for each month. I shared a nice mnemonic but this 2nd grader and her mom made their own version in an exciting video.


Math Parties

Mathematics Institute of the Triangle hosts a school kickoff party, year-end white elephant gift-exchange, and summer get-togethers.

2024 holiday party

December 2024 dinner party and math-themed gift exchange

2023 holiday party

December 2023 dinner party and math-themed gift exchange

2024 summer picnic

We hosted several summer picnics in 2024

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