Exhibition
Mathematics you can touch

An interactive exhibition for people 8 years and older

Mon, 10/10/2016 -
Sat, 10/22/2016
10:00 AM - 16:00 Goethe-Institut San Francisco

The exhibition “Math to Touch” aims to create a new approach towards mathematics. It depicts the supposedly most abstract of all the sciences in a manner that can be understood by the senses and makes mathematics comprehensible – for all age groups and without any preparatory training.
 
But what exactly is involved in this new approach? All our experiments bank on a playful approach to mathematics. They are unswervingly thought provoking and amazing: one is inspired to ask oneself “why is this so?”, and finds the first answers for oneself and thus finds the significance of the phenomena. It involves grasping with hand, head and heart; which can set a new impulse for the mathematics lessons in the school.
 
Visitors of all ages and all educational backgrounds experiment: They solve puzzles, build bridges, rack their brains while unraveling riddles, watch a sphere race, let wonderful soap bubbles come into being – and while doing so, they are always incidentally involved with mathematics.
 
The Goethe-Institut is in uncharted waters with this exhibition. All the more reason why we are very happy to get a renowned partner for this project. The “Mathematikum” in the town of Giessen is the first interactive mathematics museum in the world. “Mathematics that you can touch” displays a selection of especially proven and established experiments from the exhibition in Giessen, where one is invited to try out and think over more than 160 exhibits. Since it was opened ten years ago, around 1.5 million visitors have experienced the exhibition.
 
The exhibition will be on display at the German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV) in Berkeley from October 4 to October 8 and at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco from October 10 to October 22.