Our family has a membership to our local children’s museum, the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, and whenever we go we always have a great time. My kids’ favorite thing to see first is whatever the featured exhibit is – they know it’s going to be special! We recently went to check out Math Midway, which will be the featured exhibit through April 29th. I was interested to see how fun math could be, and this exhibit made it fun in SO many ways! It was so fun that when I told Sophie she could choose one more activity before she left, she chose to go BACK to Math Midway. It was the first AND last thing we did on our visit.
The Math Midway is set up like a carnival midway, with lots of cool booths where you can do fun math games. Like using math to distort a photo of yourself in the Fun House:
This was the kids’ absolute favorite activity – using a wavelength to design your own roller coaster, then test it out and time it. Super fun! They did it over and over.
I liked this exhibit because there really were activities for kids of all ages. Even the youngest kiddos could romp around on this mat while the older kids built a giant puzzle:
Little kids could also great all kinds of fun shape and puzzle creations on this giant magnetic board:
This is really just a snippet of the many fun activities at the Math Midway. We had a great time, learned a lot, and highly encourage anyone in the Dayton area to take their kids for a stroll through all these great math games and activities at the Boonshoft. I know we’ll be going back to see Math Midway again before it leaves town April 29th.
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I am being compensated for this post. All opinions about the exhibit are my own.
Math and neckties are of the devil!
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