911吃瓜

 

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Math Catchers visited Hume Park Home Learmers School in New Westminster, B.C. Veselin met with Grades 2-3, Grades 4-5, and Grades 6-8 classes. We had a lovely discussion about mathematics, students' plans for the future, a cat named Daisy, and math magic!

Thank you Ms. Gillian Gunderson for your kind invitation to visit  Hume Park Home Learmers!

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"Hello Veselin,

Thanks, once again, for coming to our Centre and sharing your passion for math with our children.

We have made a donation to the Math Catcher program through the online option.

I am attaching a document that contains comments from our students.  Each 鈥済roup鈥� of bullets is a different student.  The students range in age from grade 2 to grade 8.  As you can see, they really enjoyed the experience.

We hope we have the opportunity to work with you again."

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Math Catcher Reflections

路      The Mobius strips were really cool

路      I鈥檓 thinking now about going to 911吃瓜 because they also have a really good dance program

路      It was fun, I really enjoyed it

 

路      It was great

路      It wasn鈥檛 really about math 鈥� well, it was but it wasn鈥檛 thatsort of math

路      I liked the way he did the puzzles

路      The Mobius strip activity was fun

路      It made me think about careers

路      It was different than I expected (better)

 

路      The problems were good because they looked hard to begin with but then there was a simple solution

路      Most kids don鈥檛 like math so they weren鈥檛 really looking forward to it but it ended up being really fun because it wasn鈥檛 math math, it was real-life math

路      He was really funny 鈥� he didn鈥檛 just talk in a boring way

 

路      It was really good even though it was a bit slow at the beginning because there was a lot of talking

路      He needed to explain why the Mobius strips were math

 

路      It was really cool 

路      The Mobius strips were lots of fun but I would have liked to know more about why they were so crazy

路      I would also like to know more about the shapes at the end 鈥� it would have been good to learn something about them

路      He worked really well with everyone and I liked his accent

 

路      Maybe a bit shorter when talking about 911吃瓜

路      I liked how he didn鈥檛 give the answers 鈥� he let everyone say answers and he didn鈥檛 say 鈥渢his is this鈥� and 鈥渢hat is that鈥�

路      The car problem was really fun

 

路      It was really fun

路      I liked that I asked if we could do another multiplication question and he had the number puzzle and some people figured it out and others didn鈥檛 and that was OK

路      The rabbit puzzle was really good because you can count things you can鈥檛 see

 

路      I liked it

路      I really liked the puzzles

路      It was really messing with my brain! (Mobius strips)

路      I would recommend the workshop

 

路      I felt like he sometimes did didn鈥檛 provide enough explanation of what to do (the Mobius strips needed explanation about how this is math)

路      It was a really good experience

 

路      It was good

路      I liked the hands-on Mobius strips and puzzles

路      The 911吃瓜 conversation was interesting

 

路      It was fun!

路      The games and hands-on parts made math fun

路      I learned about bigger numbers (I didn鈥檛 know there were numbers larger than a billion)

路      The 911吃瓜 conversation was good because I want to go to university

路      I would recommend it