Imagine a father handing his three-year-old daughter a cereal spoon to dig a swimming pool—not because he cannot finish the job with an excavator in an afternoon, but because his daughter would miss the entire experience of working on the project freely, failing safely, and noticing the small wonders: how dirt sparkles in sunlight, how grass holds clumps together, and what creatures make their home in the soil. Mathematics can be explored in this same spirit: slowly, by hand, noticing the texture of ideas rather than rushing toward results. While our discipline possesses powerful abstractions and theorems—our “excavators”—this special session celebrates the down-to-earth experience of engaging with mathematics more granularly. Doing math “with a spoon” means slowing down, exploring with elementary tools, and savouring the texture of the problem itself. We invite presentations that sidestep heavy machinery and instead explore interesting mathematical questions using accessible approaches, discovering beautiful curiosities along the way. Join us to get your hands dirty and experience the joy of mathematics at a human scale.