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Sarasota News Leader March 8, 2013 to get through. So I was looking for something that would get the pre-service teachers [teachers who have not held posts yet] to engage in this. They are all learning ideas they can use in their classrooms." Page 76 Among the projects, students created kaleidoscopes, optical art, fractals and origami. Outside, chalk projects and a live jazz band were the attractions, but the real action was in the Selby Auditorium, where dozens of taHunsader continued, "I also get the chance bles were set up and dozens of eager young to expose elementary kids to a lot of spatial teachers and students were constructing cool and mathematical concepts. I'm hoping that things while Mozart played in the background. allowing kids this kind of freedom to explore "The purpose is to see how many different this kind of stuff … gives them the chance to shapes they can create with just one rectansee math in a new way — to let them see that gle," said Jamilla Ali at one table. math can be fun. I want them to see math can Ali and Denisha Allen were helping Candace be creative." Dixon, a Booker Middle School student, As a point of fact, Hunsader added, "A lot of with "Rectangle Madness." As this reporter the stuff they are learning here … the math watched, Candace crafted a lovely and colorbehind it is college-level math." ful piece. Ali and Allen are both working toIn this second year of the fair, the number of ward a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education at USF. attendees doubled, according to Hunsader. Pine View fourth-grader Spencer works on a project. Photo by Scott Proffitt