Halloween is fast approaching. This year there will be no Trick-or-Treating and for Tacoma’s North End, no Proctor Treats. I will miss the tradition where my math colleagues and I dress up as each other for our costumes. We do this in even numbered years:
Halloween 2016 
Halloween 2018
Thankfully, the COVID resurgence doesn’t stop us from celebrating with each other. Tonight the UW Tacoma Teaching and Learning Center held a Spooky Trivia Night. There were lots of questions about vampires, pirates, ghosts, Harry Potter, and Sweden (scary, right?) plus some smelly science, electoral facts, and yes, even a math question or two. My favorite was
Apparently trivia nights are known math questions with a twist.
Even my office hours got into the act. Gather has added seasonally themed avatars (posted in the featured image above.) I can’t decide between the green-skinned witch or the mummy. Who would you choose to be?
Math Belongs to All of Us 