Hume Park Home Learners, New Westminster, BC
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 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV 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 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV
· 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 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV 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 ¶ˇĎăÔ°AV conversation was good because I want to go to university
· I would recommend it