What Happens When You Combine a Mathematician and 24 Advanced Learners?

Magic!

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We were lucky enough to have Dr. Veselin Jungic from SFU’s Math Catcher program come and spend an afternoon with our class.

He brought lots of riddles…

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And binary code jokes (what are the numbers you don’t want to show your parents?)…

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The Chief and Five Sons problem set everyone on fire:

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We made Möbius strips and double Möbius strips and Möbius strips that somehow turned into squares with dangling mini-Möbius strips…

 

And there were toys!

I’ve never heard so much laughter in a Math class.  Thank you, Dr. J!

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