Discovery Museum

The Discovery Museums will develop a hands-on, interactive math gallery and related programs designed to strengthen caregivers' skills in facilitating math-related conversations. Exhibits will be modified to strengthen the links between interaction with math exhibits and explicit math learning. To make the family experience in a math gallery more meaningful and to counteract negative perceptions towards math, the museum will build on current practice in museum exhibitions by developing and field-testing design strategies for prompting math-related conversation in a playful setting, and by developing a "Family Math Evaluation Guide" to be shared with children's museum and science center exhibitions. These design strategies will allow the museum to better promote math-related conversation about math concepts and make real-world connections.