Would folks like to design a skateboard, bang a drum, pretend to be a weather forecaster or virtually explore Mars? Or would they rather study up on geometric properties, fractions, statistics, variables and algebra?

The newly installed “2theXtreme” exhibit at Orlando Science Center takes those first activities then craftily spotlights mathematical properties.

“They do a really good job of giving you an experience and then showing you how math plays a part in this,” said Jeff Stanford , vice president of marketing for the science center.

“It’s showing the hidden math in everything,” said Zachary Mailhot, science program specialist.

Among the first stops seen in “2theXtreme” is a snowboard experience called Boardercross, where visitors stand on a pivoting board and use angles and to

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