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How to Celebrate Math Awareness Month
Sure, we all know that February is Black History Month and March is slowly gaining notoriety as Music in our Schools Month, but did you know that, in April, our country sings the praises of the fraction and says "hip-hip hooray" to the decimal and salutes the often misunderstood square root symbol? Take a number, math lovers, because we're about to find ourselves in Math Awareness Month. If you were caught oblivious to this most super-numerary springtime observance, you're not alone. It seems that both the Santa Fe Institute and the
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Santa Fe Public Schools, two of the most number-spewing organizations in town, are also exponentially unaware of this Awareness Month-neither entity would return phone calls placed by this algorithmic reporter. The theme of this year's Math Awareness Month is "Math and the Cosmos", which holds special meaning for Santa Feans not only because of our proximity to the heavens but because of the frequency with which we hear that "Mercury is in retrograde." Why not dust off that protractor and find out if it's true, once and for all?
Do it yourself:
You don't have to be an Einstein to take part in Math Awareness Month. Start with a free poster featuring a totally psychedelic rendering of the cosmos amid plenty of helpful facts and figures. To get yours, visit
. After that, why not plan a math party, where everyone dresses in their favorite number and you can play "pin the denominator under the numerator" or math charades?
