Newsletter August 30, 2012

Moby Snoodles

Subscribe Welcome to adventurous math for the playground crowd! I am Moby Snoodles, and I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Moby’s mail As Sue VanHattum guessed, my native language is Whalish. And now Ever discovers my favorite color is 33 80 DE. Translated from Whalish (hexadecimal, base 16) into human, these are three numbers: 51 128 222 […]

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Math Stories – Moebius Ants

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdEsouIXGM This is a story inspired by Vi Hart’s “Wind and Mr Ug” video. I so wanted to tell it to my son myself, but my drawing skills fall way short. So instead we talked about ants. Once upon a time two ants lived on a strip of paper. A strip of paper has… how […]

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Newsletter August 15, 2012

Subscribe | Read online Welcome to adventurous math for the playground crowd! I am Moby Snoodles, and I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com   Moby’s mail I adored the responses to our last newsletter. It feels good when your work is supported and appreciated. Take a look at these examples… I love the 3D function machine […]

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Knot Theory for Young Kids

Moby Snoodles

A couple of weeks ago I discovered a wonderful math blog called Math Munch. Now, with a name like this, you know this is going to be good! And it is even for someone who is not a professional mathematician and who was pretty scared of math as a child (I’m pointing my finger at […]

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