Glass Geometry/Pear Tree Studios and the Q.E.D. Foundation are partnering up to host the first ever Math Garden in honor of the ‘original’ Math Gardener: Martin Gardner*. Math Garden is a chance for high school age students to gather with interested mathematicians to have FUN while discovering math.

Our Math Garden will be hosted by the Monadnock Waldorf High School in Keene, NH. The event is Friday and Saturday October 19 and 20, 2012. The Monadnock Waldorf community at large is willing to provide lodging for visiting students.

The schedule for the event will include:

Fri Oct 19

• 5:00 Arrive before dinner
• Pot-luck dinner at Monadnock Waldorf High School
• Math related media and activities

Sat Oct  20

• 8:00 Keynote address
• AM workshops
• Lunch (provided)
• PM workshops
• 3:30 Final Plenum
• 4:00 Dismissal to Pumpkin Fest in Keene!

The $25 registration fee includes workshop materials and lunch on Saturday.

*Martin Gardner was possibly the most prolific contributor to making math popular. He wrote a column on recreational math in Scientific American for over 25 years, covering everything from puzzles to juggling to games to new discoveries in all fields of mathematics to annotations of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass to fallacies in science and on and on.

Since Gardner’s death three years ago, parties celebrating his life and work have been going on around the world on his birthday (Oct 21). These celebrations are now taking place on all seven continents!