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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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…
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:…