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Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to present our latest event. In this engaging workshop, students will experience and learn about the secrets hidden within the patterns, shapes, and structures found in the natural world as they hike in Banff, a Canadian national park. From the influence of the Fibonacci sequence to the symmetry of snowflakes, mathematics is the underlying language that can unveil and explain these phenomena.

Time: July 2nd, 2023, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Age: Grade 6+

Origami is a Japanese art form where one sheet of paper is folded to make other objects. Surprisingly, this art form can be used to solve mathematical problems that cannot be solved using common Euclidian geometric construction.

Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to host the second part of our Origami workshop where students will learn about non-Euclidian geometry through origami. Students will also learn about how proofs are constructed and well-known trigonometric equations.

Time: April 2nd, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Age: Grade 8+

Sign up here:

https://forms.gle/HbAMoNCfmCVrD1B87

 Have you ever wondered how to maximize your pathway for Halloween to get the most candy? Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to announce our newest event: the Chinese Postman Problem. Initially asked by a Chinese mathematician in 1962, this problem involves trying to calculate how a postman could best choose his route so as to maximize his time.

Time: January 4th, 2023, 3:00 - 4:30 PM

Age: Grade 8+

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/3sahb3Z8MYyaBY9fA

Join our Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/CEsdTnpp4M 

 Besides the obvious use for card games, one of the things that playing cards are most commonly used for tricks. The team at Lemonscate is excited to present a three-day seminar on the hidden math behind several fun card tricks you can show your friends and family. 

Date: August 26, 2022, 4:00 - 5:00 PM 

Age: Grades 6 - 10

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/7ELR2ZCvrH5juAC89

 Besides the obvious use for card games, one of the things that playing cards are most commonly used for tricks. The team at Lemonscate is excited to present a three-day seminar on the hidden math behind several fun card tricks you can show your friends and family. 

Date:  August 27, 2022, 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Age: Grades 6 - 10

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/7ELR2ZCvrH5juAC89

 Besides the obvious use for card games, one of the things that playing cards are most commonly used for tricks. The team at Lemonscate is excited to present a three-day seminar on the hidden math behind several fun card tricks you can show your friends and family.

Date: August 28, 2022, 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Age: Grades 6 - 10

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/7ELR2ZCvrH5juAC89

 Around the world, there are many different ways elections are held. In some countries, voters rank individuals in the party they choose. In other countries, voters only vote for their preferred political party. Elections should be as accurate as possible, however, it actually cannot be perfect. A mathematical theorem, proven in 1952 by Kenneth Arrow who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work, guarantees that you can always find a situation in which a given election system is unfair.  

In this class, we will explore the math behind several election systems and the criteria mathematicians use to judge the fairness of each election system. We will also cover Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and the reason why elections can never perfectly represent the people's wishes. 

Time: Sunday, Jan. 2nd, 2022, 3:00 - 4:30 pm 

Attendee: anyone who is interested 

Platform:  Discord; Join here: https://discord.com/invite/CEsdTnpp4M 

Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/UUZbSb2B3Mr4j1t28

 A business case competition is an event where contestants try to create the best solution to a business case study. 

Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to host the Back-to-School Business Case Competition in collaboration with Arbor Financial Literacy (@arbor.fl)! Running from Aug. 26th to Sept. 1, students will be given the opportunity to test their creativity and entrepreneurial skills and learn how a product is created from the initial idea all the way to the promotion and distribution of the product. Participating teams will be given a case study and a prompt, asking them to design a product that could solve some problems present in the case. 

This competition is open to students of all ages! You'll make your own teams of 2-4. The winning team will receive a $40 Visa gift card and the runner-up will receive a $20 Visa gift card.

Detailed rules and sign-up info are on Arbor’s website: https://www.arborseminars.com/bts-business-case-contest

Registration is open until Aug 25, 2022 https://forms.gle/KKpqmtzUCG2JxagD9 

Note* Case study and all other relevant material will be emailed to contestants after Aug 25 to ensure a fair competition. 

 Minecraft is a sandbox-style game where players can change, create and destroy the world around them. It was first made public in May 2009. For many kids, Minecraft has been a big part of their childhood, with over 200 million copies of the game sold. 

Speedrunning is a hobby in which people compete to complete a video game as quickly as possible. When Minecraft speedrunning is brought up, no name stands out more than Dream. Dream has held multiple accolades on Minecraft speedrunning leaderboards. However, the validity of these runs has been put into question as moderators of the leaderboards have suspected Dream of cheating.

In this class, Lemonscate Mathematics will explore the way math is used in Minecraft and dissect the math behind Dream's scandal. We will be talking about probability and statistics. More specifically, this class will cover the statistical tools for bias corrections, binomial distribution, and Fisher's method.

This class welcomes attendees of any age and is primarily targeted towards middle school students. This class is offered free of charge and will be held on discord. Join our discord here. Sign up for this event here.

Requirements: A device that can access discord. 

Time: Saturday, July 10, 2021, 3:00 - 4:30 PM

 Did you know that origami came from the words "oru" meaning "to fold" and "gami" meaning "paper"? 

Origami is a fun, easy, and inexpensive activity. It can be used to solve many math problems and engineer many items that are sent out to space. 

Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to host our new class: an Origami workshop! We will be covering basic geometry, the origin of origami, and how origami is used in both math and engineering. We will also show how to create a paper crane and a lotus flower out of nothing but a few sheets of paper.

This class welcomes attendees of any age and is primarily targeted towards elementary students. This class is offered free of charge and will be held on zoom.

Requirements: A few pieces of paper, preferably origami paper, but any type of paper works. 

Time: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Workshop Recording: https://youtu.be/WdWcKnudlUk

 The team behind Lemonscate is excited to explore math with youth and to help them reach their full potential. We are elated to announce our new topic! A complicated, yet intriguing, theory, created nearly two centuries ago: the Riemann Hypothesis. This hypothesis can find the distribution of the prime numbers and is considered one of the most important papers in number theory. This hypothesis is one of the millennium questions, seven unsolved math theories with a one-million-dollar bounty for anyone that comes up with proof for them.  

This class is for anyone who is in middle school and high school and is offered free of charge.

Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:45 - 6:15 PM

Sign up for our class here and join the Discord server here (The event will be held on Discord)

 Aiming to make math fun for youth, Lemonscate Mathematics is proud to bring the Among Us inspired probability class. 

After taking the world by storm, the trendy and amusing social deduction game Among Us has millions of people playing for hours. Our objective is to involve youth in their own education while making it entertaining. 

During this class, we will be going over basic probability. This includes things like combinations and permutations. We will be exploring how probability is used in game theory and how it applies to games like Among Us. We will also go over strategy involving probability that can be used in Among us. We will apply this newly acquired knowledge in gameplay at the end of class. 

This class is for anyone who is in middle school. They need to have access to a device that can download the game (free on ios and 6 dollars on steam). 

This class will run on December 28, 2020 from 7:00 - 8:30 pm.

Sign up now by joining our discord server here and filling out this form here.