HOST A FESTIVAL

JRMF offers a free, personal consultation for you while planning your math festival. We will share resources, help you plan a festival for your individual needs, and answer any questions you may have. We can help you anywhere in the world share the joy of math in whatever ways make the most sense for your community.

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Scroll down and enter your name and email to receive our free DIY Festival Planner. In this 13 page pdf, we share everything that we’ve learned about hosting math festivals over the past 15 years, including how to set up your venue, find volunteers, pick math activities, and do marketing and outreach.

Or check out a math puzzle today. All of our activities are freely available on our puzzles page and come with the resources you need to use them at home, in your classroom, or at your math festival. Here are some of our favorites that we recommend starting with:

1. Cup Stacking
2. Jumping Julia
3. Magic Flowers

When you register your math festival with us, you’ll receive the following for free:

1. A registration link that you can share with your attendees (example from a past event)
2. A host-only attendee check-in page for you to see who has signed up to attend your event
3. A custom url and webpage on our website that you can share with your attendees (example)

You’ll also help us measure our impact as an organization and join hundreds of other festival hosts around the world who are working together to share the joy of math. Even if you don’t use the free resources above, we highly encourage you to register your festival with us!

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If you’re in Seattle, Vancouver, or the San Francisco Bay Area, you can hire one of our math festival experts to come out and host your math festival.

What we do:

1. Bring all of the math activity supplies
2. Lead a 1 hour volunteer training
3. Host your math festival
4. Setup and cleanup

What we need from you:

1. A large open space (gym, multipurpose room, etc.) with tables and chairs/benches
2. Volunteers from your community (parents, teachers, or older students)

Cost:

1. $800, with financial assistance available through our partners at CMC and Math Medic Foundation

If you’re interested in hiring JRMF to host your math festival, set up a free math festival consultation today.

A Math Festival in a Box contains everything you need to host a math festival for over 100 students and their families. You’ll receive manipulatives, volunteer guides, and student handouts for 10 math activities, including:

1. Apple Picking
2. Cup Stacking
3. Domino Dissection
4. Doodles
5. Jumping Julia
6. Ladybugs
7. Magic Flowers
8. Map Coloring
9. Skyscrapers
10. Tile with Style

All materials are sorted, organized, and put in sleeve protectors and binders for your convenience.  Open the box and host a math festival right on the spot. Almost everything in the Math Festival in a Box is reusable, so that with a single purchase, you can host math festivals for many years to come.

Cost: $1500

For more information, visit our Math Festival in a Box webpage.

Need help funding your math festival? JRMF along with two of our partner organizations offer scholarships and grants to help make your event as affordable as possible:

1. JRMF offers grants through its Math Festival Grant Fund. Any Title 1 school in Seattle, Monterey, or the San Francisco Bay Area is eligible to apply. If your school receives a Math Festival Grant, JRMF will cover 100% of the cost of hosting a math festival. A trained JRMF team member will bring all of the supplies to your school, set up, lead a volunteer training, and make sure your event runs as smoothly as possible. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
2. Math Medic Foundation offers a grant for school-wide initiatives, like math festivals, that support students’ math education. The next deadline for this grant is Apr 24, 2023 and applicants will be notified of decisions by May 19, 2023.
3. CMC’s Student Activity Trust Fund offers a scholarship for school-wide organized math activities, including math festivals. CMC’s scholarship covers up to half the cost of a math festival, and applications for their scholarship are reviewed every January and September.