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Math at the Fair MathHappens Foundation is inviting applications for teams to participate in Math at the Fair, a project that aims to build playful and creative math experiences at fairs and similar e...

This past Sunday, math happened at The Fleet Science Center! MathHappens was the Fleet's Genius in the House.

MathHappens has 7 Math Rooms across 4 states. In this post, we hear from Monique Harrison about the Benjamin Banneker Math Room at NAAM.

MathHappens Foundation was delighted to participate in SXSW EDU 2025 right here in our headquarter city of Austin, TX. The conference provided a stimulating environment for exchanging ideas and foster...

See 5 scenes from MathHappens's time at the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering.

We love a special event at MathHappens. We do several dozen per year through our local partnerships as well as with distant organizations.  An example of an event type we do is running our usual math ...

MathHappens has been growing, and we now have locations in four states!  We have partners, employees, and interns working in Texas, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Washington, but we still love being able ...

MathHappens intern Asa Grumdahl is interested in Heesch numbers.  Unfortunately, a formal presentation of Heesch numbers and questions surrounding them is too complicated as a starting place to engage...

Before 2023, the question, “Is there a single tile that only tiles the plane non-periodically?” had no known answer. We now know the answer is “Yes!” and you can hold an example in your hands. These t...

Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas is a great place!  Their vision is “to provide a safe and natural oasis where the Dallas Community and other visitors can have fun while they Expl...

MathHappens has partnered with The Works Museum, an interactive STEM museum in Bloomington, MN to bring The Shape Studio to life the first and third Saturdays of each month. The Shape Studio contains ...

In late July, MathHappens hopes to send out about thirty prototype puzzles, in return for play testing and feedback. Our target ages are 6 years old and up. We are hoping for a wide range of contexts:...

We were invited to the Washington, D.C. Family Math Expo earlier this month. While we can’t travel everywhere and attend every math event (although we do admit that would be a ton of fun!), this seeme...

Discount Tickets On Sale Friday, April 5! The fourth annual Kickoff to Summer at the Fair will return May 23-26, 2024! This slice-of-the-fair event features more food and fun things to do than ever be...

Here’s a fun little toy. It’s useful for building an argument about the area of a circle. Let’s say you know that π (pi) is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Then, because th...