Volunteers
Make magical math moments in your community
JRMF relies on volunteers to help create magical math moments for kids. We have a number of ways to get involved, from playing math puzzles in a virtual classroom to hosting your own festival.
Testimonials
“I am a biochemist, but I loved helping students explore a logic puzzle about a pirate captain and crew (complete with pirate hats).”
“Whether used in-person or online, JRMF activities provide an easy way for a teacher to successfully offer opportunities for open-ended mathematical exploration to their students regardless of their ages and mathematical sophistication.”
“The feedback from the kids in my classes has been uniformly positive.
They’ve all enjoyed the open-ended nature of the problems, and they have undoubtedly become stronger and more confident problem solvers as a result.
Often they have gone away to continue the problems in their own time at home, which certainly doesn’t happen with their regular homework tasks!”
“When I asked my 8 year old if he wanted to go to a math festival, I got a rather tepid, “Um… maybe? How long is it?” When I told him 1 hour and 45 minutes, he was like, “What???!! That’s almost two hours of my life wasted on MATH!”
We asked some friends to come along, and we ended up staying until we got booted out at the end of the event.
Total success.”
“There were kids who love math from all over the metropolitan area, and a lot more kids who hate math but who had been coerced by their parents into coming. The most amazing thing was that they all loved it, and all had a blast, and you couldn’t tell who was who.”
“The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival is helping to redefine math. My kids are engaged and their brains are like kindling, tingling with possibilities. JRMF is supplying a match.”
Run a Classroom Visit
Lead virtual classroom visits in your neighborhood elementary or middle school. We train volunteers (including high school and college students) on how to manage this virtual outreach activity. The only thing you need to bring is an open mind and the desire to bring fun math into a kid’s life.
