Who operates Math On-A-Stick?
Math On-A-Stick is an official event of the Minnesota State Fair, and operates with funds provided by the Minnesota State Fair Foundation.
The Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics provides many volunteer hours, general volunteer coordination, funding for visiting artists and mathematicians, and organizational support.
Talking Math with Your Kids and Public Math provide creative services. MathHappens Foundation supports the Director’s work.
We would love to recognize your organization for providing volunteer hours! Get in touch for details if you’d like to join the likes of Desmos, CPM, Public Math, and the Adult Numeracy Network, who have each sponsored a day of volunteers at Math On-A-Stick.
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More information
Here are a few pieces of writing about specific activities at Math On-A-Stick, with more coming soon.
Here is some writing about the event itself, from a variety of places.
From Christopher Danielson of Talking Math with Your Kids: Let the Children Play. The founder of Math On-A-Stick takes a deep breath and looks back on the first four days of Math On-A-Stick, and looks ahead to the future.
From Lani Horn: Math On-A-Stick Lani—a researcher and educator at Vanderbilt—describes the data collection that took place for her team’s research on children’s playful mathematical learning.
From Annie Perkins: Math On-A-Stick! and Math On-A-Stick, Part II In the first post, this mathematician, teacher, and artist lists out three reasons she described Math On-A-Stick this way: “It. Is. The. Best.” In the second post she reflects on what teachers, parents, and children can learn from each other in this space about math, teaching, learning, and being human.
From Megan Schmidt: Embracing Her Rules and Math On-A-Stick, Encore Edition In the first post, this mother and educator reflects on her daughter’s rule-breaking in a space designed for rule-breaking young mathematicians, and in the second she expresses gratitude for us presenting this view of math that schools often cannot.
From Greta Bergman: Math On-A-Stick great photo documentation of the wide range of activities that take place in the space.
From Laura Wagenman: Math-On-A-Stick As Told By My 8-Year-Old A delightful 8 year-old reflects on several volunteer shifts over the 12-day run of the 2018 Fair. “If I had describe Math-On-A-Stick to someone, I would tell them it’s a spot where instead of doing worksheets, you play and do math“
From Cassandra Turner: Math On-A-Stick: New Favorite at the Minnesota State Fair An educator stumbles on Math On-A-Stick for the first time.
From Peter Hoh: A beautiful photo album on flickr.
Finally, Sara VanDerWerf took us on a 1-minute video tour of the space a few years back.