RAFT Announcements

Join us for our next Math Institute this Summer at RAFT!

This 3-day RAFT Math Institute introduces educators to the fundamentals of visual based learning of math concepts through hands-on approaches. Learn a ‘hands-on’ approach to modeling daily word problems that will help students visualize the math concepts involved.

• One Day Elementary topics Plus
• Perimeter, Area, Solids, & Symmetry
• Visual Thinking
• Word Problems

INSTRUCTOR: Tsing Bardin has been working with elementary school teachers and in university teacher training programs for many years. She has retired from teaching physics at SJSU and at City College of San Francisco.

TARGET AUDIENCE: 3rd – 5th grade teachers; interested educators welcome

COST: FREE for members; non-members join here https://www.raftbayarea.org/membership-form

DATES: This 3-day event is on: Monday, June 18th 2012 till Wednesday, June 20th, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: RAFT San Jose

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This is just one of the many upcoming workshops at RAFT this summer. Browse Summer Workshops

While Geometry often describes and measures shapes like a cone, sphere or triangle, does it define the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree?

It does! Most patterns in nature, called “fractals” describe curves, surfaces and objects that have some very peculiar properties so irregular and fragmented, that it takes more than spheres, cones, circles, triangles, smooth or straight lines to describe them!

These fractals might resemble arteries, coral, a heart, a brain, tree branches and other such ‘designs’ that have symmetry, ‘self-similarity’ and are scale-free!

Look around you – Fractals are everywhere!  Have fun with us and discover everyday Fractals at the upcoming RAFT workshop ‘Fractals and Beyond’ on Feb 9th, at RAFT San Jose. This workshop will demonstrate how fractals can be related to Sierpinski’s gasket, to patterns, to equations, to graphing, and to even a broccoli! For more information please click here.