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 strip jewelry out of fabric, polymer clay, or thick paper. Cover the strip with paint […]

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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 make fine art.   Try it at home with a DIY sound plate – or […]

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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 newsletter. “Special Snowflake” is one of the most popular activities in the Moebius Noodles book […]

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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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