“I’m learning how to put the shapes together,” said Anya Reisen, 8. “Right now, we’re trying to get unstuck without taking these off,” said Jack Stone, 9. With all sorts of brain-teasing games, puzzles, and even jugglers, the event looked more like a carnival than a classroom. “It’s like interesting and hard at the same time,” said Zen Keshwani, 10. Organizers from the National Museum of Mathematics want to show kids that calculations can actually be very creative.
Math Festival Aims To Make Summer Learning Fun #dyscalculia
Submitted by Judy Hanning on Fri, 2017-10-20 05:00
In yet another attempt to make math fun for children, Ali Bauman reported Sunday, a festival in Lower Manhattan sought to do just that. One man who appeared as a mime at the event is actually a college mathematics professor. His lesson at the was about infinity, and his classroom was the first ever New York Math Festival – put on by the National Museum of Mathematics. Scientists believe that making math fun for students can actually leave them with a want to learn the subject instead of simply being turned off by something they find boring.
Making math fun at the New York Math Festival.
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A math festival in Lower Manhattan attempted to keep children excited about math during their summer break.
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Organized by people from the National Museum of Mathematics, the festival set up math-related games to entertain and teach children, such as a roulette wheel and a pattern-building game.
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The point of the festival is to motivate children to learn math by making it exciting for them instead of something they have to do.