This submission highlights our work at United South End Settlements, where we introduced students to mathematical thinking through interactive games, strategy challenges, and card-based illusions. Across three sessions—The Hummer Trick, Nim, and the Game of Set—students explored concepts such as parity, symmetry, logical reasoning, multidimensional pattern recognition, and mathematical structure. Each activity allowed students to…
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Mathematical Invariants, Strategy, and Geometry Through Games and Card Tricks
This poster represents a service-learning collaboration between Northeastern University and United South End Settlements, where students explored mathematical concepts through interactive card tricks, strategy games, and geometric puzzles. Activities such as the 21 Card Trick, the Hummer Card Trick, the Count to 15 trick, and the T dissection puzzle introduced learners to ideas including parity,…
Exploring Math Through Strategy, Logic, and Illusion at United South End Settlements
This submission highlights our work at United South End Settlements, where we introduced students to mathematical thinking through interactive games, strategy challenges, and card-based illusions. Across three sessions—The Hummer Trick, Nim, and the Game of Set—students explored concepts such as parity, symmetry, logical reasoning, multidimensional pattern recognition, and mathematical structure. Each activity allowed students to…
Math, Magic, and Problem-Solving at the Boys & Girls Club of Roxbury
This artifact highlights our service-learning partnership with the Boston Boys & Girls Club of Roxbury, where we taught middle-school students mathematics through magic tricks, games, and hands-on puzzles. Our poster showcases activities such as card-based mathematical tricks, the classic “Add to 15” strategy game, matchstick logic puzzles, and peg-jump problems. These interactive lessons helped students…
Northeastern Students 4 Giving Fall 2025
This artifact highlights the organization that the NS4G students selected as the recipient of this semester’s $5,000 grant. The class studied six organizations over the semester and created systems maps to understand the complex factors that interact to perpetuate systemic issues. Link to Artifact: View…
Student Quotes From Dr. Apfeld’s “Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging” Service-Learning Course
This artifact details our student’s experiences of volunteering with their assigned community partners: Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly or FriendshipWorks. These partner organizations work with the elderly in the greater Boston area, and focus on providing many different resources for this community. Through these quotes, learn about more about our work with Service Learning!…
Collages of Class Projects Completed to Improve Community Access and Presence of Campus Food Forests/Gardens
This artifact is a set of collages of the final presentations that each group made in this capstone classes. This artifact was selected because it demonstrates the amount of collaboration the class entailed and the diverse types of environmental initiatives being worked on throughout the semester. There were 5 group projects in this class. Each…
From Classroom to Creature Care: Designing with Animals in Mind
This poster showcases reflections from students in the Spring 2025 Animal Computer Interaction course, highlighting their learning and partnerships with real-world organizations such as zoos and aquariums. We chose this artifact to represent our experience because it captures the collaborative, meaningful, and applied nature of the course. Through engaging projects, students explored how technology can…
Reflections on Service-Learning in the Classroom
This is a compilation of students’ reflections after completing their weekly service-learning at schools and community centers. Link to Artifact: View…
Food Groups Relay Race Game
Pictured is a poster board that was part of the food groups relay race we had during one of our workshops with the 2nd and 3rd graders at the Pierce Elementary School in Brookline. The kids took turns sorting paper images of foods into cups labeled either vegetables, fruits, whole grains, or proteins. Once the…