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 “group” 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

·      The Mobius strips were really cool

·      I’m thinking now about going to SFU because they also have a really good dance program

·      It was fun, I really enjoyed it

 

·      It was great

·      It wasn’t really about math – well, it was but it wasn’t thatsort of math

·      I liked the way he did the puzzles

·      The Mobius strip activity was fun

·      It made me think about careers

·      It was different than I expected (better)

 

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

·      Most kids don’t like math so they weren’t really looking forward to it but it ended up being really fun because it wasn’t math math, it was real-life math

·      He was really funny – he didn’t just talk in a boring way

 

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

·      He needed to explain why the Mobius strips were math

 

·      It was really cool 

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

·      I would also like to know more about the shapes at the end – it would have been good to learn something about them

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

 

·      Maybe a bit shorter when talking about SFU

·      I liked how he didn’t give the answers – he let everyone say answers and he didn’t say “this is this” and “that is that”

·      The car problem was really fun

 

·      It was really fun

·      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’t and that was OK

·      The rabbit puzzle was really good because you can count things you can’t see

 

·      I liked it

·      I really liked the puzzles

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

·      I would recommend the workshop

 

·      I felt like he sometimes did didn’t provide enough explanation of what to do (the Mobius strips needed explanation about how this is math)

·      It was a really good experience

 

·      It was good

·      I liked the hands-on Mobius strips and puzzles

·      The SFU conversation was interesting

 

·      It was fun!

·      The games and hands-on parts made math fun

·      I learned about bigger numbers (I didn’t know there were numbers larger than a billion)

·      The SFU conversation was good because I want to go to university

·      I would recommend it