We took a “Maker” approach at STEM SantaFe’s camp this week. Students experimented with different ways to make a moveable joint using a variety of materials: balloon pieces, tin foil, brads, rubber band and even the wax paper bag the materials came in. Creative ideas included bending the brads to make tension, combining brads with balloons. We also made 3
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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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Advice from the MOXI Museum on Golden Ratio Exhibit
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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Saturdays with MathHappens at the Austin Nature and Science Center: Golden Ratio
To build on the exhibit already in place at the Austin Nature and Science Center, visitors were able to stop by our table and make their own golden ratio calipers. Alongside this activity, guests were given the opportunity to color in their own golden ratio spiral, which could then be made into a necklace. This ratio (1: 1.618…) is present
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Saturdays with MathHappens at the Austin Nature and Science Center: Compass Rose
Visitors learn about Mercator maps and why the compass rose is important for navigation. There are four decorative compass roses on this map and numerous rhumb lines. Outside the visitors center is a human sunclock!
# 3 MathHappens at Nature Nights at the LBJ Wildflower Center: Golden Ratio in Prairie Animals
Looking for the Golden Ratio in Prairie Animals, insects and even our own arm and hands. Over 115 visitors came by this evening.
Space and The Golden Ratio, Buda Public Library
Kids were surprised that they can learn about math and space! We used golden ratio calipers to find that proportion in a satellite photo of Hurricane Sandy and a space photo of Spiral Galaxy NGC1232. Participants made a Golden spiral necklace.
Golden Ratio at Pioneer Farms
Pioneer Farms presented the Golden Ratio to visitors along with information about prairie animals. From Claire Steffen: I wanted to let you know that people really enjoyed learning about the golden ratio on Saturday. I had one woman remark– “I’m 42, how did I not know about this?” Another man was very interested and when we were done, went to
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Austin Nature and Science Center Caliper Status: Worn Out!
Worn out Golden Ratio Calipers means they were well used. And that they lasted a couple of years. So that’s great and we’ll bring them some more.
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