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Yes, there are actually a number of us who have developed math exhibits 
and exhibitions.  Our math exhibition (see below) has been very well 
received and traveled for 6 years at this point-- one venue kept it for 
almost a year as teachers loved the fact that it tied into their curriculum.

Here is a list of math exhibits/exhibitions that I am aware of (all may 
not be current):

--Fun, 2, 3, 4:  all about a number of things! is a traveling exhibition 
we've developed on counting, measurement and graphing (details about 
each exhibit from link at 
http://www.sciencenter.org/exhibits/exhibitionsforrent.htm)
--Everyone Counts-- Children's Museum of Houston
--Solve It Central- Ann Arbor Hands on Museum
--Moneyville by OMSI
--Risk-- Fort Worth
--Calculus exhibits (in-house) Science Museum of Minnesota
--Easy as Pi was a group of about 10 tabletop math exhibits, of which a 
number of copies were made for museums in a collaborative in North Carolina
--Beyond Numbers-- Maryland-- long time ago
--I also think of puzzles and problem solving as being closely related

 I"m sure there are other math-related exhibits and exhibitions beyond 
these (my apologies to those I forgot) and Mathematica which was 
mentioned by someone else, and the TERC Math Momentum project which is 
working, in part, to bring out and share the math that is in many of the 
exhibits in our museums (we are part of this colloborative).. This will 
get us started.. Sorry to be behind in replying- been out of town a lot 
recently-- but didn't see any other responses to this query.

Kathy Krafft
Director of Exhibits
Sciencenter
Ithaca NY
607-272-0600 ext 25


Subject:
What Went Wrong with New Math? Math in Museums?
From:
Wayne Watson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 30 May 2005 20:36:12 -0700


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Yes, what did go wrong? I believe that got rolling in the 70s but 
somewhere a long the line went out of style. Did something replace it?

Do museums get concerned about math? I'm not even sure the Exploratorium 
in San Francisco pays much attention to it. Of course, there's the 
Mathematica exhibit that stil can be found in a few places around the 
U.S. that was created in the 60s, but that's the biggest effort that I 
know about or can recall.
-- 
             Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

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