Past Events

What are Lesson Studies? "Lesson Studies", in various formats, have become popular in the teaching community as a means of professional development. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will offer a series of workshops closely...

Math Mania - Demonstrations of fun methods to teach math and computer science concepts to students, teachers and parents through games and art.

This will be a gathering of math postdocs/graduate students with the goal of discussing issues which are relevant to them such as: - applying for tenure track jobs in Canada and the United States - connecting to industry We plan to have presentations...

While the examples will centre on grades 4-7 work, the workshop is suitable for teachers of all grade levels. This is the first of 3 workshops. The dates of the two follow-up sessions will be announced later. The workshop will be presented by Melania...

Review of assessment and placement of students at the Haahuupayak School, Port Alberni. Working with teachers and giving advice about the Math program. Collecting feedback from teachers about student performance.

Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, 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 amazing...

Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, 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 amazing...

Math Mania presents a variety of interactive demonstrations, 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 amazing...