We had a special treat for HEB Sunday! Caroline Ainslie of Bubbly Math was on hand to make a geodesic dome from balloons. We had a great team for the day including Michelle Tat, Lauren Siegel, Marybeth Barnstone, Millie Barnstone, Emmie Chng, Josephine Sheng, Caroline Ainslie, Samantha Trevino and Nina Hunt~ Samantha, Emmie, Josephine, Nina and some guest MH staffers
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If you have a Makerspace and are looking for something fun to make, we have an idea for you. The packing cube is a really cool and interesting puzzle. You just need to etch the cardboard folds and fold into pyramids. It’s surprising how the pyramids can all fit inside the cube. It’s a good challenge to figure out how
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Comments from the MOXI Museum in Santa Barbara. They liked the Golden Ratio Calipers and decided to make their own and set up a self guided exhibit. They’ve got some great advice for any museum interested in doing this too. “I have in fact used your files in a crude way and brought out some ratio calipers in my museum’s
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MathHappens had a blast tabling for the Hot Science Cool Talks event at UT Austin. As the talk related to space, we folded origami to show the mathematical origami techniques that engineers use in space technology!
MathHappens Interns Josephine Sheng and Viyang Shah had the opportunity to try out an activity on Freese’s Dissections at The Thinkery’s Educator Night on October 17th, 2019. They had a great time interacting with educators in the Austin area and demonstrate to them how math can be approachable and fun. Some even said they’d leave their personalized puzzles at their
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The idea for MathHappens to work with tessellating pentagons originated from intern Jason Gorst’s suggestions for future projects on his final report. A tessellation describes an arrangement of shapes that tiles a plane with no gaps or overlaps.The challenge of finding all possible tessellating pentagons was issued in 1900 by David Hilbert at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris
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Stick Stock (Surveyors in Texas before Annexation to the U.S.), ca. 1845, oil on canvas, 14in. x 17 in. framed, Lent by Larry Sheerin, L.2012.2.3 MathHappens is sharing ways that a mathematical device, the survey Chain measurement system invented by Edmund Gunter in the 1600s impacted Texas history as we transitioned- only sort of — from the Mexican Vara
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Mathematical Origami has applications in Medicine as well as space travel, fashion, and more. We made Chompers today along with other mathematical origami structures including simple spirals and the Miuri Ora Map fold. Photo Gallery coming! Resources and Info Several of our files for the 110 cardstock, laser etched designs we gave out on Museum Day are found here in
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Photo Gallery coming soon. The Wildflower center is making giant bubbles for Museum Day, and when bubbles collide we get Voronoi Diagrams. So we made an encore appearance with our microscope and dragonfly wing, pictures of giraffes, mud, turtle shells. Participants will trace out the structure and then use that tracing to make a colorful faux stained glass art piece.
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Huge thank you to Neill-Cochran House for hosting MathHappens for another great Austin Museum Day. Cupcakes, Square Root Spiral hand fans, pythagorean theorem, penrose step, chess, checkers, tic tac toe, this stop has it all! Photo Gallery coming soon! Articles / Resources Making a square root spiral in paper or on paper can be fun. Here’s a blog post that
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