Year: 2013

Math goggles: Moebius jewelry and 19th-century animation machines

Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. Thank you, Katrina Mills and STEMcrafted (J.E. Johnson) – you notice beautiful math on Pinterest!   If your kids don’t work with gold and silver as the sculptor Ilana Krepchin, you can still make Moebius

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Math goggles: cymatics and minimalist posters

Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. Via Simon Gregg and Becka Rucker, who notice math on Pinterest. Can you see sounds? Over a vibrating surface, sand or powder arranges itself into a symmetrical pattern, like a snowflake. You can use these cymatics effects to

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Snowflakes, Part II: 3D origami, fractals in the Alps, artistic apps

Subscribe to the Moebius Noodles newsletter Welcome to adventurous math for the playground crowd! I am Moby Snoodles, and I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Special snowflakes, take 2! Happy holidays! Last December, we wrote about snowflake-related math in our December

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Purple Comet! math meet: 4 awesome design features, and a book

Purple Comet Cover

Many math symbols are really pictures, such as 0 for emptiness or ∞ for endlessness.  In the title Purple Comet! Math Meet the exclamation mark in the middle is the picture of a comet, of course. But what is a math meet?

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