The Webinar on Exploding Dots took place on Friday, January 22nd, 2021 from 10 am until 11 am, with the mathemagician Sergio Belmonte, Vice President of the Museum of Mathematics of Cataluña (MMACA), as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker explained the history of the number system by exploding dots. Sergio Belmonte then described the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through fun explosions. The speaker also mentioned that this new way of playing with mathematics is an initiative created by James Tanton as part of the “Global Math Project,” which takes place every year for students and institutes all around the world. This virtual event was co-organized with the Museum of Mathematics of Cataluña (MMACA).
