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JoyMath workshops invite families, students, and educators into vibrant mathematical experiences that spark curiosity, build confidence, and nurture deep thinking. Through interactive, visual, and hands-on activities, participants explore math as a creative, connected, and joyful practice. Math isn't just something we do to get by; it's part of who we are and how we live. When we nurture our relationship with math, it adds dimension to our lives. It deepens our curiosity. It helps us become more resilient.
JoyMath Circle
A weekly space where kids ages 8–11 move, play, and explore beautiful mathematical ideas together. No worksheets, no grades. Just curiosity, creativity, and the joy of mathematical thinking.
Fridays 3:15–4:45pm | April 10 – May 15, 2026
Taborspace Day Hall, Portland, Oregon
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Interrogating Confident Nonsense
Interrogating Confident Nonsense: How Mathematical Pressure Reveals Structure
A hands-on lab where participants generate, interrogate, and revise AI outputs—learning to distinguish real rigor from confident nonsense. Mathematics is used as a language of interrogation: surfacing assumptions, naming variables, and applying pressure at the start of the feedback loop.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | 9:30–10:30am PDT
Shiley Hall 312 · AIEmpoweredEDU2026
University of Portland campus, Portland, Oregon
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Empowered Beginnings
A 90-minute math workshop for parents and guardians of Pre-K–1st graders. Every parent deserves to feel confident and equipped to support early mathematical thinking, regardless of their own math story. We explore our own math identities, dig into a hands-on math task, and leave with research-informed strategies for building strong math identities in young children.
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Uncovering Wild Mathematics
Nature is full of hidden math! Patterns in pinecones, spirals in shells, symmetry in leaves, structures in crystals and storms. In this workshop, we step outside the classroom to uncover the mathematics woven through the natural world. Together we explore, build, draw, and reflect, learning to see math not as something separate from life, but as a language the earth speaks fluently.
Field Notes From a Young Mathematician: A Math Journaling Workshop
Math journaling is like keeping a field notebook; we record questions, sketches, ideas, and observations about the mathematical world. In this workshop, you'll begin your own journal and explore the art of noticing patterns, expressing reasoning, and reflecting on problems over time. A mix of creativity, exploration, and personal voice, this practice opens the door to a more meaningful and flexible relationship with math.
Modeling Mathematics: Building Ideas in 2D and 3D
This workshop is for hands-on thinkers and idea-builders. Using simple materials, students create 2D and 3D models to explore mathematical ideas; connecting shapes, patterns, and systems to language, logic, and symbolism. We slow down the rush of school math to make space for innovative thinking. Students get time to build, label, explain, revise, and listen, developing not just math skills, but mathematical voice.
Mathematical Discourse: Talking, Listening, and Thinking Together
What makes a mathematical conversation meaningful? How do we listen, question, and respond in ways that help ideas grow? This energetic workshop brings together logic, respectful challenge, and a spirit of collaboration. Participants practice defending ideas with reasoning, welcoming critique, and changing course when needed. It's part logic, part dialogue, part confidence training and all heart.
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