{"id":4955,"date":"2017-01-14T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2017-01-14T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T00:00:35","slug":"math-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/01\/14\/math-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you looking for volunteer hours and have fun at the same time? Math Mania is in the air!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4649\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/MM2016.2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Math Mania is an evening of mathematical demonstrations, puzzles and hands-on activities for elementary school children. It\u2019s designed to show children \u2013 and their parents \u2013 how much fun you can have playing with mathematical games and concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers run individual tables, each with their own activity or activities. You\u2019ll get a chance to try out your games before the children appear \u2013 you don\u2019t need to be an expert, just enthusiastic! If you\u2019re collecting volunteer hours for a practicum or for entrance into a teaching program, we can give you a letter describing your involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>February 1, 2017<\/strong> (5:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm) &#8211; <strong>Yarrow Community School, Yarrow<\/strong> (20 minutes away from UFV Abbotsford Campus)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 17, 2017<\/strong> (5:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm) &#8211; <strong>Chilliwack Adventist Christian School, Chilliwack<\/strong> (20 minutes from UFV Abbotsford Campus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>[highlight]Sign up now![\/highlight]<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in joining the fun, [highlight]<a href=\"math.mania@ufv.ca\"><strong>please email Math Mania<\/strong><\/a> [\/highlight]from your preferred email address with the following information:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject:<\/strong> Volunteer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Which event you want to help with: Yarrow Community School (February 1st) or Chilliwack Adventist Christian School (May 17) or both<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on Math Mania please visit our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/math\/math-mania\/\">website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Math Mania is presented by the UFV <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/math\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematics &amp; Statistics Department<\/a> in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pims.math.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Mania is an evening of mathematical demonstrations, puzzles and hands-on activities for elementary school children. It\u2019s designed to show children \u2013 and their parents \u2013 how much fun you can have playing with mathematical games and concepts. Volunteers run individual tables, each with their own activity or activities. You\u2019ll get a chance to try &#8230; <a title=\"Are you looking for volunteer hours and have fun at the same time? Math Mania is in the air!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2017\/01\/14\/math-mania\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,20,21,170,5,58,168,9,6],"tags":[74,265,64,264],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-departments","category-engineering","category-events","category-events-newsletter","category-mathstats","category-news","category-outreach","category-physical-geography","category-physics","tag-math","tag-math-mania","tag-outreach","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}