“Adventurous Math” on Kindle; what is multiplication? Newsletter February 17

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Subscribe to Moebius Noodles newsletters Pinterest | Twitter | Facebook | Google+  I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. Send me your requests, questions and comments at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Book news Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd is now available for Kindle and other e-readers in the .moby format. What is multiplication? Questions, comments, ideas, blog […]

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Mirror book fractal stars

Mirror book fractal stars

Yelena McManaman’s son Mark loves deep ideas. Yelena writes: “Mark is obsessed with the idea of symmetry and infinity. Now he’s also trying to build up on his “zero infinity and infinite zero” ideas.” In one of his latest experiments, Mark invented a way to model fractals with two mirror books. There is a chapter on […]

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One to one hundred: a series of posters from Mark Gonyea

Mark Gonyea 100 patterns

Mark Gonyea is an artist and graphic designer who recently crowd-funded an inventive and elegant series of 100-charts. The artwork caught my eye because the patterns were both adventurous and algebraic. Want to borrow my math goggles? Go on a scavenger hunt within the posters to find these mathematical structures: Arrays Star sheafs and star […]

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Multiplication Towers

Multiplication Towers

One of the wonders of the ancient times is that many tribes and nations from different continents independently discovered and built patterns we call Labyrinths. Some math ideas are universal like that! Over the last decades, the Multiplication Tower idea has been appearing in many different projects. We interviewed authors from the 1970s to early 2000s, and […]

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