Have you seen it? MathHappens was happy to support a San Francisco Bay Area stop for Matheatre’s Calculus the Musical. Xiaojie Zhang teaches calculus at Skyline High School in Oakland, California. It was because of Ms. Zhang’s enthusiasm (and a few speedy emails to her principal’s office) that Matheatre could make Skyline High a special stop on their 2020 tour. More
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Take and Make: Pythagorean Puzzles are a hit in Middle School
These two Pythagorean Theorem Puzzles were a hit with Paola Garcia’s middle school students. Paola mentioned that some students who are not as facile with pen and paper exercises excelled with the wooden puzzles and that overall everyone enjoyed them. Laser cutting files are posted here. These do not have the solutions etched into the board
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Take and Make Proportional Calipers and Golden Ratio
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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MathHappens @ MoMath and A Great Evening in NY City.
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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Take and Make: Mini Unit Circle
We made a little video of the mini unit circle with Radian piece and it got some interest on our twitter feed. We tidied up and updated the file as much as possible and have three versions available: link to SVG Mini Unit Circle File link to Adobe Illustrated Mini Unit Circle File link to Corel Draw 2017 file version
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See you at MoMath!
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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Take and Make: Number Slider
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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Take and Make: Mirror Book
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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MathHappens @ STEMScouts_ATX pilot program
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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Take and Make: Curve Stitching
Curve Stitching Files: SVG and Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator 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
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