Year: 2013

Math+Art photography <== Scientific American <== Moebius Noodles

Alex Nguyen Portraits

  Seeking shapes, surfaces, and curves in nature is a favorite game for mathematicians – and for young kids! The Seattle lifestyle photographer Alex Nguyen reports on an art project about flowers. It was inspired by the Budding Scientist blog, where

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Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart: Newsletter June 15, 2013

James Tanton

Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is a special issue of my newsletter. You are invited to participate in our next book-making effort. It is also a course, and a citizen science project. For sign-up information, email me at: moby@moebiusnoodles.com

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Paper Weaving and Grid Games

Patrick Honner’s Moebius Noodles guest post on mathematical paper weaving was very inspiring to me. Mathematical weaving employs one of my favorite making materials – colored paper!  It was actually sort of challenging to get started, but after playing around

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“Little people, big play, and big mathematical ideas” by Robert Hunting

Moebius Noodles Big Ideas

Robert Hunting’s paper I read this week is a part of MERGA (Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia) symposium on the role of play in mathematics (full text PDF). Robert makes a subversive statement about two types of big ideas:

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