{"id":2,"date":"2016-11-30T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-03-05T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:15:32","slug":"event-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/","title":{"rendered":"ImagineMath! 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/20-2\/\">Registration<\/a> deadline for ImagineMath! 2018 \u00a0is <strong>Friday, March 2, 2018<\/strong>. Email Scott Taylor (scott.taylor (at) colby.edu) with questions! (WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING LATE REGISTRANTS!)<\/p>\n<p>ImagineMath! 2018 will be held on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, March 17 from 9:30 AM &#8211; 3 PM\u00a0<\/strong>in the Parker-Reed room in the Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center at Colby College. It&#8217;s free to participants and lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>ImagineMath! Day was started at Harvey Mudd College in 2006 and has since made its way to several other colleges and universities around the U.S. The focus of the day is on collaborative, fun, creative mathematics. Before lunch, participants will work in groups to investigate either the math pertaining to voting theory or the math pertaining to knots. After lunch, each group will design a poster to share with the rest of the participants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments from ImagineMath! 2017 at Colby College:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The day] opened me up to a new &amp; different way of thinking about problem solving&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The day] helped show that mathematics can really be involved with anything&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Math can actually be fun&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[E]ven students who are more or les ambivalent about math can have interesting discussions about problems&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine Math Day helped reinforce the idea that math could be entertaining&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration deadline for ImagineMath! 2018 \u00a0is Friday, March 2, 2018. Email Scott Taylor (scott.taylor (at) colby.edu) with questions! (WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING LATE REGISTRANTS!) ImagineMath! 2018 will be held on\u00a0Saturday, March 17 from 9:30 AM &#8211; 3 PM\u00a0in the Parker-Reed room in the Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center at Colby College. It&#8217;s free to participants and lunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2290,"featured_media":45,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/imaginemath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}