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Take a Math Walk at the Twelve Hills Nature Center!

By talkSTEM Contributor March 8, 2023Math Learning, Our of School Learning, Place-Based Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives, Videos

We’re excited to announce a new series of MathFinder educational videos featuring and filmed at the Twelve Hills Nature Center, a wonderful blackland prairie restoration project and gardens right here in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas! You can now take...

A Welcome to STEM at Voice of Hope

By talkSTEM Contributor March 8, 2023General Topic

Voice of Hope has teamed up with Mathfinder (our NSF-funded initiative in partnership with SMU and others) and talkSTEM to create a math walk on its beautiful campus in West Dallas, together with a new series of short video guides that...

Art and STEM Combine at the DMA!

By talkSTEM Contributor March 8, 2023Math Learning, Our of School Learning, Place-Based Learning

Now you can go on a Math Walk at the Dallas Museum of Art. We are excited to launch a new series of video guides exploring the connections between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and art. You can go on...

Let the March MATHness begin!

By talkSTEM Contributor March 1, 2023Our of School Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives

March is here, and with it comes the newest initiative from talkSTEM and MathFinder – the March Mathness Challenge! We’ve compiled our walkSTEM tours of Dallas (and added a few new ones!) into a competition to explore and engage with Math...

Taking a Math Walk at the Dallas Arboretum with an Informal Educator – Part 2

By talkSTEM Contributor February 20, 2023General Topic, walkSTEM®

After visiting all these places, I wanted to understand a little bit more about how to create my own walkSTEM stop. So, I went to a place in the Arboretum where I love to sit and watch – the koi pond...

Taking a Math Walk at the Dallas Arboretum with an Informal Educator – Part 1

By talkSTEM Contributor December 1, 2022General Topic, Videos, walkSTEM®

Somewhere, a student is sitting in their math class thinking, “Why am I learning this? I’ll never use this in real life.” I remember questioning the purpose of memorizing the quadratic formula or calculating how many apples Stacy ate. My perspective...