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Teaching Physics With a Real-World Context
Placed-based learning provides a way for high school students to directly engage with scientific phenomena in their daily lives.
Facilitating Student-Created Math Walks
Wang, M., Walkington, C., & Dhingra, K. (2021). Facilitating Student-Created Math Walks, Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 114(9), 670-676.
ICYMI: What’s New and Next in Dallas-Fort Worth Innovation Today
Bringing Math to Life
The National Science Foundation has awarded a new $2.5 million grant to SMU math curriculum researcher Candace Walkington (above right). Throughout the five-year grant, Walkington is partnering with talkSTEM, a Dallas-based nonprofit that offers STEM learning resources for kids of all ages, to better understand how educators can offer a math education outside the classroom (its founder and CEO Koshi Dhingra is above left). The first year will be focused on developing Mathfinder, a gamified app that leverages augmented reality to turn a cell phone or tablet into an interpretive math tool. Learners can use their camera to view mathematical expressions layered over real-world objects, or explore short videos for STEM walks at nine local learning sites, including the Dallas Arboretum and Frontiers of Flight Museum. The talkSTEM team will gather data to correct roadblocks to learning.
talkSTEM® Fall Program Offers Engaging, Educational walkSTEM® Opportunities at Eight Noteworthy Dallas Spaces
Families, students and educators are invited to participate in Family Explorers’ Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM)-integrated walking tours , Oct. 22 through Dec. 31, 2020.
Eight Area Women Leaders Honored For Their Work in STEAM
Executives from Texas Instruments, talkSTEM, and The Beck Group are among those recognized.
COVID-19 Pushes Parents Online for STEM Resources
Local educators created videos and printable activities to help caregivers get their kids engaged in STEM this summer.
Fourth Annual Pi Day Math Festival Celebrates Importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM)
Teachers, students and families from around the Dallas-Fort Worth area are invited to participate in the fourth annual Pi Day Math Festival where real-life applications of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) are on full display by nearly two dozen exhibitors.
JGD Publishing Partners with talkSTEM to Donate 1,000 Books to Pre-K, Kindergartners as Part of National Read Across America Day
As part of a national initiative to increase literacy and promote math and science learning, JGD Publishing has partnered with talkSTEM, a Dallas nonprofit, to donate 1,000 copies of “Good Night Dallas walkSTEM Edition” to local elementary schools as well as coordinating “read alouds” to Pre-K and Kindergarteners around the city.
Every child is a STEM child, Every space is a STEM space
talkSTEM works hard to make unique and high quality STE(A)M educational content freely available to all children. We partner with such youth-serving organizations as Dallas ISD, Girls Inc, Imagine Science, and more. Every dollar you contribute goes directly to our educational programming and content creation that reaches under-resourced student populations. Please support us.
