Workshops
Interactive workshops for schools, libraries, and teams
- From mathemagical card tricks to scavenger hunts and games that explore cognitive biases.
- Participants solve riddles, experiment, discuss, and discover ideas from mathematics, science, data, AI, and critical thinking.
- The workshops usually take 2–3 hours and can be adapted for children, teenagers, adults, or mixed-age groups.
Schools
Engaging workshops linked to the curriculum: Digitale Grundbildung, Mathematik, Medienbildung, and Informatische Bildung.
Libraries & Museums
Hands-on formats for science afternoons, public events, and curious mixed-age groups.
Organizations & Teams
Team-building events with substance: collaboration, problem-solving, and reflection on relevant topics such as AI, data, and decision-making.
Workshop library
Explore our collection of tested workshop formats.
Each workshop can be adjusted to your group, setting, and goals.
Mind Sprint
A fast-paced riddle challenge about intuitive thinking and cognitive biases.
Are you fast on your feet? Find and solve as many riddles as you can. But beware, the answer is not always what it seems to be! This game is loosely based on Daniel Kahneman‘s Thinking, Fast and Slow. It consists of 20 riddles that each have an intuitive answer that is, however, always wrong :). How many correct answers can you figure out in a 20-minute sprint? We then dive deeper into our thinking processes and highlight cognitive biases that shape our thinking.
Decision-Making, Cognitive Biases, Problem Solving
Mathemagic: Tricks That Anyone Can Learn
A hands-on workshop where participants learn card tricks that work because of hidden mathematics.
Want to see a magic trick? And learn a few yourself? In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore a selection of card tricks that are easy to learn, yet guaranteed to amaze your friends. The best part? Anyone can perform them – no nimble fingers or sleight of hand required. The secret lies not in skill, but in the hidden power of mathematics. Join us and discover how math can create a little magic right in your hands!
Card tricks, Mathematics, Algorithms
World Quiz
An estimation game about global trends, interpreting data, and misconceptions.
How many children will there be in 2100? Rush through checkpoints to estimate global trends and unlock data-driven reasoning. Most people would surprisingly score better if guessing at random, can you beat the odds? Discover the logic behind world statistics, not just memorize them. Based on book Factfulness by H. Rosling.
Data Literacy, Estimation, Scientific Reasoning
Puzzles, paths and algorithms
A scavenger hunt about mazes, paths, and the algorithms behind route-finding
Come and play a scavenger hunt through the library – at every intersection you’ll have to solve a riddle to find the right path to the treasure. Along the way, we’ll delve into the mathematics behind mazes and paths. Together, we’ll explore algorithms for finding routes through mazes, wonder which mazes allow you to traverse each corridor exactly once, and see how computers approach such puzzles. Come, experiment, think, and play your way through the world of mathematical mazes!
Algorithms, Puzzles, Problem Solving
Hocus Pocus vs. Data Focus: the Scientific Method and knowing what’s true
An investigation of the scientific method, surprising research claims, and how we decide what is true.
How do scientists know what is true and what isn’t? You may have seen published claims that Eating chocolate will make you slim .. or even that people can see the future. You don’t need to be a magician, science can sometimes conclude this, too. We’ll look at how the scientific method works (and how it doesn’t). We’ll discuss how researchers sometimes roll the dice and why a fraction of published findings may, in fact, be wrong. Even though scientific reasoning is the best that we have.
Scientific Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Data Literacy
Paper folding and cutting puzzles
A single sheet of paper hides more surprises than you might expect.
Is there a sheet of paper that only has one side? Can you slip through a hole in an A4 sheet of paper? Or fold a piece of paper so that you can cut out the first letter of your name with just one straight cut? Or would you rather fold a flexible polyhedron? Or figure out how to eat a piece of chocolate and put the remaining pieces back together so that the bar looks whole again? Sounds almost like magic, right? But no, it’s math! Come and try these and other folding and cutting puzzles. They seem impossible at first, but with playful math, we’ll find the solutions. You don’t have to be a math whiz—just bring yourself and your curiosity!
Paper geometry, Puzzles, Problem Solving
Not sure which workshop fits your group?
Or have an idea for something new? Get in touch and we will help you find or shape the right format.