Q&A: How do you get kids to love math? Try a festival.
Math is fun, says Nancy Blachman, and the 65-year-old Burlingame resident is trying her best to get others to agree. Blachman founded the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, which since 2007 has held...
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JRMF’s New Brand: Making Math a Festival
For over 15 years, the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has shared fun and meaningful math with kids worldwide. We have always believed that a math festival – a community event that brings people...
View ArticleRegistration Open for the San Jose Math Festival
Registration is now open for the 15th-anniversary celebration of the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. The celebration includes a community-wide math festival and an after-party. The math festival...
View ArticleJRMF Receives STEM Grant from PPG Foundation
Calabasas, Calif. — The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has received a grant from the PPG Foundation to provide math festival grants to Pittsburgh schools. The grant will allow 8 Title 1 schools in...
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Best Math Purchases for Kids this Holiday Season
Tis the season for toys galore. Consider adding math games, puzzles and books to your shopping list to introduce kids to how fun math can be. When kids play games, they use their creativity and develop...
View ArticleJRMF Receives Second STEM Grant from the PPG Foundation!
Calabasas, Calif. — We are pleased to announce that the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has received a second grant from the PPG Foundation to support math festivals at schools in the greater...
View ArticleGrant Partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Calabasas, Calif. — The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support Math Festivals at schools in New York City. The grant will provide 10...
View ArticleWho is Julia Robinson?
Who is Julia Robinson? Julia Robinson was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D in mathematics from Berkeley in 1948. She is most famous for her work on Hilbert’s 10th problem, one of 23 mathematics...
View ArticleThe PPG Foundation is funding JRMF Math Festivals again this upcoming school...
Calabasas, Calif. — We are pleased to announce that the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival has received a third grant from the PPG Foundation to support math festivals at schools in the greater...
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