Super simple and yet kind of cool. You need a machine screw, a wing nut, some scrap wood about 4″x.5″, and some stretchy elastic. We cut ours on a Helix laser cutter. Directions and Files Here. Check the video on Twitter to see how it moves. Article from American Mathematical Association here. Also if you don’t want to make from
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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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Using an arts and crafts approach, we can teach a classic mathematics technique with low stress. We are providing the demonstration kit, a magnetic starter triangle and a simple straight edge (also magnetic) in sets of five as a door prize at this weekend’s Edcamp at Region 13, an UnConference for educators. We hope that the educators who win the kits
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Something we’ve been enjoying since the summer is introducing teachers to laser cutters. Teachers are always being creative when making lesson plans so teaching them how to use a laser cutter gives them another resource to use in their creative endeavors. At the end of June, Abdulkarim presented to math teachers at the Math Teachers’ Circle of Austin. He invited
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A great group on a rainy Sunday met to learn to use the big Epilog lasers from MakeATX experts Zoe and Devon.
Click Here to see Abdulkarim Bora, MathHappens Project Manager briefly explaining why we love proportional calipers!
We are working on a larger list of fun math things, but these are definitely in the top 10.
We are so glad to have Josephine Sheng working for MathHappens this spring. She has already been on two site visits, presented to AISD District leaders and made some cool stuff! Here are just a few photos, we need more : )
Major accomplishments Summer 2017: Maker Faire – large public event, large number of interactions. Delivered Seminars/Conference Sessions: UTeach Alumni Conference – Playground and Presentation, at Texas State History Museum: Delivered Seminar for Social Studies Teachers, Seminar for AISD Math Teachers, Gained a spot on the Bullock’s guide for Museum Programming options Math Circle Seminar for MS Teachers – assist UT
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This summer we are making math materials for teachers as well as museums. These caliper kits are going to a math teacher who saw our presentation at a the UTeach conference. She’s very excited to use them with her class this year.