Founder and President Vung Tau, Vietnam, May 2024 – Present
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In May 2024, after many rounds of thinking about how to make math feel closer to everyday life: how to help students enjoy it more and make it less dry and distant my friends and I Founder MAPP (Math Applied Project). It’s a place where we challenge ourselves and share our love of math through activities that are both fun and useful.
The first days were honestly tough and pretty messy. We were building the program framework while asking very practical questions: “What does applied math mean in plain words?”, “How do we get a 6th-grader excited about modeling?”, “Will parents be worried?” We knocked on school and library doors to borrow space; we wrote lesson plans, then rewrote them, tested, and tried again. Each test revealed a new gap to fix: explanations still too academic, examples not close enough to real life, timing that didn’t quite fit…
Thanks to determination and teamwork, we launched a mix of online and in-person workshops for about 35 students in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, introducing modeling thinking through familiar situations using our “Outside the Box” Q&A series. In parallel, we wrote posts about math in economics and finance, art and music, and sports, so students could read on their own and practice “attaching math to life.”
Event days were awkward but joyful. “Folding Math” welcomed 40 younger students; every fold brought an “aha!” about geometry, symmetry, angles, and ratios. “The Sound of Math” turned the classroom into a mini studio, where waves, frequency, and harmony showed up inside the music the students created themselves. Not every session was perfect: sometimes the speaker failed, sometimes a group couldn’t get the fold right. But what we remember most are the curious eyes and big smiles when the kids grasped a new math idea.
Looking back, MAPP is true to its name: taking math out of notebooks and into real situations. We won’t pretend to solve every “unknown” in teaching and learning, but we believe in one clear “answer”: every time a student discovers a pattern on their own, every time math helps them tell their own story. From our hometown, we’ll keep moving slowly but steadily, so math truly becomes a bridge to life. And for everyone who loves math, we hope each person will find their own way to turn that love into meaningful activities for the community.
We invite you to check out the sweet moments from our events, “Folding Math” and “The Sound of Math.”
The Folding Math Event
We successfully organized FOLDING MATH, an event using origami to explore mathematical concepts, with the participation of more than 40 students. This event brought a fun and rewarding playground for students, combining mathematical activities with origami games, nurturing the love and curiosity of mathematics for children.
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The Sound of Math Event
On July 17, 2025, at the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Provincial Library, MAPP organized an event “ The Sound of Math.”
This post continues our series on Pythagorean Tuning, where mathematics is no longer dry and rigid, but transformed into melody, harmony, and emotion on the MAPP fanpage. To bring this idea to life, we organized an event featuring our own “homemade” piano crafted from ice-cream sticks and tuned according to the principles of the Pythagorean tuning system.
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