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 are now a part of our open-access video library! Join...
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Take a Math Walk at the Twelve Hills Nature Center!
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 an app-guided (in...
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 in our great city. By engaging with...
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 at the Lay Family Garden and used the simple methods freely available on the talkSTEM...
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 shifted, however, when I recognized...