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Local Hey, there's a math museum in Kent, the Seattle Universal Math Museum (SUMM).  From The Spiral Notebook: The museum staff will do outreach programs at schools, has an extensive array of math toys, and it even has a very cool collection of math stuff on its website , with factoids and articles that are very compelling for adults and big kids, like “Math in … Probabilistic Fallacies” and “Math in … Fraud Detection.” The author, Jillian O'Connor, brings up a good point on math learning and I'll put that up in a separate post for discussion.   For the 31st year, elementary students throughout the district participated in the Global Reading Challenge. From The Seattle Times: The beloved competition has been hosted by Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Public Library for 31 years. This year, about 3,700 fourth- and fifth-grade students participated, discovering books they may not have read, learning how to pay attention to hyperspecific details, curating team-buildi...