We participated in the Math Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. We presented several activities: Pi treasure hunt, Cryptography treasure hunt, [ai] explore game, story Platonic solids game, Prepare & play sudoku, Escher type puzzle, and mathematical card tricks.
Presentation on the Matrix x Imaginary conference
We presented SciMaG games, STEM park Rijeka, and [ai] explore exhibition through Lightning talk and the Showcase as a part of the Matrix x Imaginary conference, held from August 31st until September 4st 2024 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
Poster presentation on ECM 2024
Mathematics and games workshops
We held a cycle of workshops titled Mathematics and Games for the participants of the program Budi++, CTK Rijeka.
Precisely, we held 5 workshops, from 1.7.2024. until 5.7.2024. and some titles were: Mathematical games and puzzles, Assemble and play sudoku, Sudoku in Scratch, Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm, and Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm in Scratch.
The Exhibition, Games and Virtual Reality – Technologies in Math Education
We are happy to present the book chapter by Crnković, B., Mikulić Crnković, V., Traunkar, I. (2024):The Exhibition, Games and Virtual Reality – Technologies in Math Education. In: Volarić, T., Crnokić, B., Vasić, D. (eds) Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Application. MoStart 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62058-4_1.
In the presented work, we described the two variants of the [ai] explore! game, developed within the SciMaG project.
Threshold concepts in mathematics – research
During the last couple of months, we conducted a threshold concept discussion in Rijeka, Croatia.
The aim is to identify threshold concepts in mathematics, informatics, and physics. We organized several meetings with teachers of these subjects, presented the SciMaG project, and discussed the threshold concepts.
Festival Tobogan, 26.6.2024.
26.6.2024. in front of the Dječja kuća Rijeka, another festival Tobogan was held! The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Rijeka participated with SciMaG games Prepare and play Sudoku and Pi treasure hunt.
The entire program of events is available at the link https://djecjakuca.hr/tobogan-2024-nova-ljetna-avantura-najveceg-rijeckog-djecjeg-slavlja-rukotvorne-zelene-i-suvremene-kreativnosti/, and we bring you a piece of the atmosphere at our station “Znanost an ulici” in the next couple of pictures.
Ode to light in Astronomical Centre Rijeka
A manifestation on the occasion of the International Day of Light – Ode to Light was held in the Astronomical Centre Rijeka from the 16th until the 18th of May, 2024. As a part of this manifestation, we held a workshop Mathematical games and puzzles.
More information and a program of the manifestation can be found here.
Workshops in MoStart 2024
As a part of the MoStart 2024 conference, two workshops with InAMath activities for teachers were held: Art and Technology in Math classroom (B.Crnković, V. Mikulić Crnković) and Preparing educative 3D models (I. Marić i M. Zovko).
MoStart 2024
Bojan Crnković and Vedrana Mikulić Crnković had a presentation entitled “The Exhibition, Games and Virtual reality – Technologies in Math Education” on 2nd International Conference on Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Applications, MoStart, 24-26 April 2024, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.