The special event “Celebrate Mathematics with FUNDAPROMAT in the National Congress of Science and Technology of Panama 2021” took place on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 from 5 pm until 7 pm, with Andres Rieznik, Clara Grima and Tiago Hirth, as our invited speakers. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The math communicator Clara Grima from Spain talked about her fun blog for kids “Mati and her Math Adventures” and how this wonderful project was born. Those who are interested can visit the blog here. Then the mathemagician Tiago Hirth from Portugal performed several fascinating mathemagic tricks with playing cards, rubber bands, ropes and more, which amazed both kids and adults alike. Finally, the mathemagician Andres Rieznik from Argentina presented a fragment of his incredible show of mathemagic humor, in which he squared numbers of up to 4 digits faster than a calculator, indicated the day of the week a person was born by only knowing their date of birth and created a magic square in seconds.
