The Springs preserve plays host to two large museums on it's grounds: The Nevada State Museum and the Origen Museum. This exhibit was in the Origen Museum, same one we saw the Space exhibit on my birthday in. This time around, the exhibit was focused on Mathematics- not surprising, perhaps, given the name of the event. We caught it right at the tail end of it's run, so it will no longer be available to check out by the time this post is live, I'm afraid. I hope that by preserving it's awesomeness and sharing it with you here now you'll feel inspired to look into and check out future events at the Springs Preserve! There's always something new going on and we've had a lot of fun checking it out over the time we've had our memberships. It's always a family friendly affair, too, so for those of you with young ones it's a great option for a day out with them! Personally, I've always had something of an on-again-off-again love affair with math. I felt it came easily when I was attending a math and science magnet school as a child, and paid far less attention than I should have during lessons. Everything up through geometry made sense, and geometry came easily as my spacial-awareness from years of drawing was already pretty high. It was when we started to dabble in algebra, mixing the letters with numbers, that things started to go awry for me. I think that with the right teachers it would have been no problem, as I had a teacher later in life who explained it all in a manner that clarified things immensely, but for most of my middle and high school career I found myself growing resentful and frustrated by the teachers I had, who made it seem so effortlessly easy and insulted my efforts to ask questions after class...that's right, I legitamately had a teacher make fun of me when I came to her room after class to ask her for additional guidance. She had always been a bit of a nightmare teacher, with a reputation around campus for being a monster, but to mock a student's honest efforts at trying to learn and understand the material? Wow. In the end I needed to seek out outside tutoring and it helped, but it took time to get over the psychological block that I was innately bad at math after her abuses and taunts over the school year. You may have to plan your visit for earlier in the day, however, if you're planning on visiting the butterfly exhbit, their zoo (say hi to Mojave Max their tortoise!), the Sustainability gallery , Boomtown and Waterworks, or other areas of the Preserve like the botanical gardens...
More photos below!
