Nina and I met little people and big people, families and even a Boy Scout Troup on what turned out to be a math field trip from Houston. They designed with tiles, created polygons and pizzas with hinged mirrors, and explored fractal patterns at the magnet board and by drawing and designing. It was a great Saturday!
Ximena Garcia’s Submission for International Day of Mathematics
Ximena made a video clip about Mathematics in the ISBN system for the International Day of Mathematics and you can make one too! The deadline is Feb 28. And here’s a link in case you are interested in knowing more.
Mini Unit Circle Twitter Storm!
I sent a mini unit circle to Dr. Alex Kontorovich, and he posted a short video. Previously I posted a video on this and Ralph Pantozzi retweeted and we got 10,000 views till I accidentally deleted the post. This time Dr. Kontorvich’s followers really grabbed it and it went around the globe and in less than 3 days had over
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Take and Make – Quadrants for 8th Graders
We are always excited when makers and maker spaces make our math models! Patrick Benfield outfitted some 8th graders with Quadrants (or Clinometers) and put this post on Instagram (click on photo below). Be sure to scroll through and also check out Patrick’s other work. You can find the files to make this here. View this post on Instagram Making
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Guest Lecturing at UT Perspectives Class
Perspectives was one of my favorite classes at UTeach! What a treat to come with Elizabeth Lay to guest speak to Dr. Raby’s spring class. I covered the research and idea generation process which includes going to museums, thinking about math connections, and most of all curiosity. Elizabeth shared details of our Math and Texas History project including some original
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MathHappens at Winter Tree Fest
Nina Hunt, Elizabeth Wrightsman, and Josephine Sheng helped present one of our new activities at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Winter Tree Fest this past Saturday. Visitors had the opportunity to explore Pull-String 3D shapes (laser files are here). Here is a video of one of the shapes that visitors got to make to go with the Fortlandia exhibit that was at
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2020 Real Places Conference!
Elizabeth Lay, our math in history expert anchored our exhibit table and Claire Steffens, Director of Experience for Pioneer Farms co-presented with MathHappens Foundation Director Lauren Siegel. Go Team! We had a great time. Some links and information: We learned to use laser cutters at Austins own laser coop: MakeATX For a short and informative explanation of Golden Calipers
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Skyline High. Calculus the Musical!
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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