During the 1993-1994 school year the mathematics department of Frisbie Middle School started the Multicultural Math Fair using Addison Wesley's Multiculturalism in Mathematics, Science and Technology: Readings and Activities [ISBN 0-201-29417-6] as a resource. The nine mathematics teachers each decided on one activity and wrote the directions for the students to follow. In developing the activities attention was given to gender, culture, and continent of the mathematicians represented.
Annually the activities are set up in a double room with banners hanging vertically naming each station. The different stations are decorated with posters and information appropriate to the culture which is represented. Each mathematics teacher signs up for two days to bring the students to the Fair. Elementary school classes have visited and used the Fair on Wednesdays because Frisbie students have a minimum day schedule that day.
View photos of Frisbie students working on the Fair activities.
View comments of Frisbie students about the Fair.
View photos of Bemis Elementary Students visiting the Fair.
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