If you want to check Baby Yoda among other structures real and imagined for proportions, especially the Golden Ratio, get these files for Corel Draw, or Adobe Illustrated or there’s an SVG. Let us know if you need a different format or other help and we’ll see what we can do. We use baltic birch 1/4″ thick. You can adjust
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We had a great evening with the MoMath Family Friday Audience with well over 100 people! Tessellating abounded. This display of Michelle Tat’s creative interpretations of the fifteen pentagons was very popular for photos after our talk! Did you notice the #1 tiling for the 40x 70″ display? We made a template you can laser cut and then trace. Our
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Join us a fun Family Friday, 10 January 2020 at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City! Pentagonal Pursuit: Solving a Century-Old Tiling Problem — Explore the many types of tessellating tiles and decorate your favorites. Take away stories, art and patterns to inspire more discovery at home. Register now to save your spot! Follow us on Instagram
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This is a great project. Viyang Shah shows how you can expand from just adding and subtracting. Here are the files – Corel Version 17, Adobe Illustrated, and an SVG! Please let us know if you have trouble with access. Happy Making! First version by Paola Garcia. Improvements and Cuisenairre adaptations based on suggestions from Jo Boalers facebook group YouCube
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Mirror Book Files Make all the regular polygons using just this “book” and a straight line on paper. You can also make stars and intricate symmetrical designs using objects or pictures drawn on paper. Simply laser etch the wooden and acrylic pieces, hinge the two wooden pieces together with Gaffer Tape, and glue the acrylic mirrors to the inside of your
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We were really excited to provided a mirror reflection kit to STEMScoutsATX this fall. The mobile classroom travels to area schools and offers students an opportunity to explore STEM topics. Viyang Shah is working on some lego cars with square wheels and flower shaped wheels as our next mini exhibit. Here’s their twitter post with photo. Here’s the mobile classroom.
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Curve Stitching Files: SVG and Corel Draw Mary Boole invented curve stitching to teach children how curves relate to straight lines. Make your own conic sections using these frames and string! Update 12/23/19 We shared these files with Stefanie Nguyen who runs as school makerspace at a school and the kids did wonderful creative things with them. Here’s her note
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Previously we shared a Take and Make blog on Koch Fractals. We have another fractal shape for you called the Sierpinski triangle! It has the overall structure of an equilateral triangle. This would be a good challenge for someone learning to use geometry software whether its design like Corel Draw or math like Geogebra. We are using midpoints and we
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One person can make a real difference by bringing math into a family event at the Nature Center. Emmie Chng was working solo with an enthusiastic gathering of families. They learned how to make a plumbline, how to use a quadrant, how to make one at home and why we look to the north star to find latitude. Here’s the
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