cerebral_monkey

I can definitely say this is why I hated math as a kid. It was always just "memorize this equation" or "if you see a problem that looks like this, follow these steps exactly," without an explanation of how or why. Ironically my dislike of math pushed me towards a career very heavy in math. I started programming my calculator to do the problems for me and I ended up getting a degree in scientific computing.
Thank you for doing what you are doing, it's possible to make math fun and interesting!

How do you feel about teaching young children proofs? I sometimes feel that my early math education would have been easier if I had seen proof of the methods/equations we were using, but I'm not sure if that's just some kind of bias since I now have a degree in a subfield of applied math.

As a computational science grad student, studying geometric morphometrics (the multivariate statistical study of--usually biological--shape), this is exciting! I hope more museums do this, it means more data for me!

I recently applied for a grant to use 3D scans of Mesoamerican art, but I can't say to what end yet. But I can say, I'm glad this kind of thing is becoming more common.