Episode 26 | Reaching a Million Students with Uplifting Mathematics

Dr. James Tanton returns to the ZPC to discuss the Global Mathematics Project and its goal of reaching 1 million students with some joyous, uplifting, and powerful mathematics. A few years ago, six colleagues at the Mathematical Association of America and a few other organizations came together with an idea…”What if the world could an “hour of code” like experience with mathematics?” We chat about the hopes, the goals, and the network that is building around this movement. During the week of October 10, 2017 the hope is to have these million students, their teachers, parents and friends working through some very fun, puzzling mathematics, centered on a place value representation Dr. Tanton has developed called “Exploding Dots.” For an audacious introduction to these both you can follow the links below.

For more information on the Global Mathematics Project, and how you can get involved, please visit:

https://www.theglobalmathproject.org/

For more information on Exploding Dots watch this video of Dr. Tanton giving a recent demonstration at a community college in Arizona:

https://vimeo.com/204368634