Math Goggles #9 – Watch a Cartoon

Moby Snoodles Math Googles

This week’s Math Goggles challenge is very simple – watch one of your child’s favorite cartoons and look for math in it. If it seems interesting, intriguing, strange, weird, and worth investigating, look further into it. Yep, that’s it! Here’s how it worked out for me. My child’s most favorite cartoon of the moment is […]

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Newsletter March 15, 2013

Moebius Noodles Three Back Covers

Subscribe Welcome to adventurous math for the playground crowd! I am Moby Snoodles, and I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com   Book news This week, we had the thrill of holding the full file of the book in front of our eyes. The front and back cover, Library of Congress and ISBN numbers, Table of Contents, […]

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Pi is Calculus!

Moby Says Pi is Calculus

Pi is infinity. Pi is about limits. Pi is about sequences. Pi is calculus! And yet even little kids can play with Pi. Little kids can do calculus! Happy Pi Day!

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1+1=5 Round two of the game!

What objects can you add, and what do you get as a result? I will re-post this game once in a while, as we find more good examples. Check out what Moebius Noodles readers submitted: 1+1=7 One square plus one pentagon equals to seven diagonals (JJ Rodríguez) 1+1=1 One car traveling east plus one car […]

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