Past Events

PIMS and UBC are excited to be bringing back the Math Circles Workshops for elementary school students to Monday evenings in 2018. We invite students from grades 4-7 to challenge and develop their thinking, creativity and problem solving skills in a...

This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Lots of hands-on activities! Including: • A Sorting Network • An Impossible Balancing Act •...

Math Outreach: Many Needs, Many Ways I will present a wide range of math educational outreach activities involving elementary, middle and secondary level students. By expecting children to succeed, introducing new and exciting ways to teach...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Departments of Mathematics at UBC, and SFU will be offering a 4-week Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers this summer. The summer school will run from Monday July 10th to Friday...

Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, puzzles, games and art such as soap bubbles, 'get your goat' (Monty Hall game), the penny game, the Set Game, the 'Game of 24', kaleidoscopes and hexaflexagons, Nim, Tower of Hanoi, the...

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

Participants will be invited to engage in a series of mathematical tasks which highlight ways of getting learners to use and develop their undoubted powers (imagining & expressing; specialising & generalizing; conjecturing & convincing). Speaker...

Without changing course content, delivery, or assessments, how we make an impact on undergraduate student learning?Dr. Junkins proposes taking advantage of the frequent and varied interactions between students and teaching assistants, by targeting...

This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Including: A sorting network An impossible balancing act Bubbles Mathematical puzzles Sudoku...

Archimedes Talks is a speaker series aimed at talented high-school students who are interested in math and science. Speakers will introduce students to a variety of topics in mathematics and engineering that students would not otherwise be exposed to...