Math Street Investigators SMI New York

well, ok, so it's Math Street Investigators but I've been calling it Math Camp. Call it what you will it's basically the most fabulous opportunity for kids to use mathematical concepts in a day to day way as they go around the city. Kate was thrilled and spent all of dinner chattering about it. Which of course made me so happy. Yesterday the group of 5 went to visit the HighLine which is an amazing new park in Manhattan. They used this visit to estimate the height of the Highline which is built on some abandoned railroad tracks that run above streets in the West Village. then they estimated how much steel it would take to build it, interviewed visitors to the Highline and videotaped them about how high they thought they were off the ground, etc. etc. They in turn were all interviewed by a wandering local newspaper reporter and today they are off to MOMA to explore and talk about mathematical concepts in modern art.

The sun has just come out!!!!