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Sunday afternoon, warm and shiny, was the perfect setting for the last day of MATBaires 09, the maths Festival held in different areas of Centro Cultural Recoleta since last Thursday. The Festival offered a comprehensive programme of popular science, entertainment and everyday use of mathematics in our lives. By closing time, the number of attendees reached 30 thousand.

The past four days witnessed, in total, 13 conferences, a workshop with 3 speakers, 12 open-air shows and the projection of 3 films, followed by debate-talks, and 4 documentaries. The May Olympiad took place on Saturday, with the participation of 110 students in two levels. Additionally, there were 41 board games with 4 replicas of each one and 15 giantgames on the terrace, offering different levels of difficulty for children and grown-ups. The Permanent Exhibition featured 55 maths related murals, an Art Gallery housing the work by 3 artists, 4 instruments for calculation dating back to the mid-twentieth century and 10 plasmas with multimedia contents specially designed for the Festival.