We had an amazing time at Austin Nature and Science Center! Photo Gallery to come! At ANSC, we shared with the public ways to understand math through art. We brought out our tessellating pentagons and regular shapes (squares, rectangles, etc.) and invited the public to go through the history that brought us to the 15 irregular tessellating pentagons that we
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Sarah Baca with a folding spiral! Overall Theme: Mathematical Origami in Space. We had origami, we had a cowboy ozobot moon going around the earth, we had origami worm races and more! Picture gallery to come. Resources/Reading Our files for spirals, the map fold and the zigzag folds are available in a previous blog post: We adapted them
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In this photo Ximena Mercado Garcia has items from each Museum Day math station on the table to share with Univision and their viewers. Las matemáticas también pueden ser divertidas. ¡Únete y descúbrelo tu mismo! Sarah Bacca is sending this note with all the details to teachers, principals and schools. We hope everyone gets the word! Dear Math Enthusiasts,
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We cropped out two more kiddos, but this one in the middle who is too busy working to lookup for photo kind of says it all. What a great note as well. Libraries are a wonderful place to play with some math. Greetings to you both, I hope you’re both doing wonderful. This week we’ve been doing art projects with
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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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No paper, no pencils, just working with the shapes. We had a ball! Thank you for inviting us and providing a great meal Dr. Jennifer Austin! Teachers got to take home a set of about 15 of their favorite type. Finding the types began in 1900 with Hilbert’s challenge and ended in 2017. Its a great story.
I want the files now! We attended the MOVES Conference at the Museum of Mathematics in New York this summer. Main topic? Mathematical Origami. There is a lot going on with capabilities to weaken materials and facilitate folding with lasers and other precision devices. Robert Lang and Eric Demaine are both experts and innovators in this area and they spoke
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Visitors today created a butterfly puzzle that can stay at the ANSC. Each one made a butterfly piece and together they are a tribute to famous mathematician Marjorie Rice’s work on the tessellating pentagon problem. Its a great way to end our summer series! See you next summer!
Do you have a carriage and a handkerchief? if so … YOU can work for the survey office. Got a mule? Smoke? Yes?? if so YOU can work for the survey office. At the 2019 TEKS Con Elizabeth Lay and Lauren Siegel of MathHappens had the opportunity to share some ideas for cross curricular programming in math and Texas history
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We brought our suite of Navigation Math to New York to share how we relate math to Texas History and the voyage of La Belle which is on exhibit at the Texas State History Museum. Participants learned about Mercator Maps, how parallel rulers are useful to translate lines so that course headings can be related to a compass rose. We
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