Authenticimatics exists to support creating authentic mathematics experiences for learners and teachers. For now, Authenticimatics offers student summer camps (see the Camps page), a free resource hub for teachers (see the Resource Hub for multiple pages of resources), and on-site professional development for schools and districts.
Why Mathematics?
Authenticimatics views mathematics more as a mindset for tackling complexity by creating structure, rather than as a set of computations and procedures. Mathematical modeling has many tools for this, such as making assumptions that simplify the problem enough to be able to do something about it (or at least some small piece of it). Mathematics in many schools and many homes is still focused on teaching students how to perform computational skills that, quite frankly, the computers we carry in our pockets can do far better than we can. Authenticimatics focuses on why humans need mathematics and how humans can work alongside those powerful computers to use mathematics for big problem solving.
Economically, this matters because soon enough, jobs that AI can do will not be offered to humans anymore (very similar to how robots are now building cars in factories). Humans, however, are still needed for troubleshooting the robots and the AI. Humans are the only ones capable of critically thinking about the major problems that face the world and figuring out ways to solve them. Also, for most of these problems, no one knows the answers. So there won’t be anyone there to tell the students how to solve them and monitor as they solve them and see if they are doing it correctly (which is how many mathematics classes still look). People need to be able to use resources, make conjectures, determine reasonability, seek feedback from collaboration or testing of ideas, leverage equivalence, and many other mathematical skills that are simply not the priority of most mathematical curricula at this moment.
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