MathPickle

=Math Pickle= Join Gordon Hamilton to discover how his videos, games and workshops put students and teachers in a pickle - math pickle, that is.

**How to join**

 * Follow this link at the time of the event: **[|http://tinyurl.com/math20event]**
 * Wednesday, April 27th 2011 we will meet in the LearnCentral online room at 6:30pm Pacific, 9:30pm Eastern time. [|WorldClock for your time zone.]
 * Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Elluminate Session Log-In, enter your name and click the "Login" button
 * If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event.

All events in the Math 2.0 weekly series: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events

About the project
[|Math Pickle] is a professional development site for K-12 mathematics teachers. It uses videos to showcase fantastic problems that deserve to be in every classroom.

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The particular emphasis of the site is on inviting students, even young kids, to work on unsolved problems in mathematics. Gordon writes: "My goal, together with the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is to establish $1,000,000 prize money for each of 13 unsolved problems of mathematics - one for each grade K-12. The prize money to be split between the person who solves the problem and their most inspirational K-12 teacher."

Event Host
I’m **Dr. Gordon Hamilton**. I’m a mathematician who found a passion for K-12 mathematics classrooms. There is nothing I enjoy more than visiting classes, talking to teachers, stumping students and having them stump me. I’ve spent three years full time as the resident mathematician in a private school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada which is where I learned about the greatest problem that teachers face: “How to deal with the spectrum of student ability?” The Math Pickle site and all of my professional development workshops aim to help teachers solve this problem. As well as a mathematician and educator I am also a board game designer and founding member of the Game Artisans of Canada. I design many games for K-12 mathematics classrooms so these two worlds overlap. As if that wasn’t enough, I’m also a full time husband and father to two pre-schoolers. If you think teaching 30 kids is difficult - try teaching two ;)