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The CMS is a traveling hands-on math exhibit. We do appearances at schools, which include teacher inservice seminars, and also set up at other public places, such as community museums, community centers, and shopping malls. The exhibits include fun things to look at and do: get inside a life-sized kaleidoscope and be part of a huge pattern; make your own repeating designs with rubber stamps, stencils, pattern blocks; build a rhombicosidodecahedron, or an double torus, or something you invent yourself; make a work of art by coloring a repeating pattern on the CMS's coloring book pages.
Visitors can take home mathematical activities for exploring in more depth the mathematical ideas the show introduced.
Additional sessions available to teachers include tutorials on using the Internet. This is an increasingly important skill, since there are plans to connect every school in the state to the Internet. Once these connections are in place, teachers will become less isolated, both physically and professionally; they will be able to talk with colleagues around the state and world, download curriculum materials instantly (some to appear on these Web pages).
This project is under development. Check back later to see what's new!
To CSUSB Math Department Home Page.
Last modified November 10, 1995.