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Eat your math cookies with Francesco De Comite

Escher bird cookies

Invite your kids to play with their food – and at the same time, with their math! Here are some Math Maker ideas and beautiful photos from our guest Francesco De Comite. Escher bird tessellation cookies. Please tell us a

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Math goggles: shapes within shapes

ShapesWithinShapes

Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. Help your kids to recognize simple shapes within shapes. Next, use these simple shapes to make more complex art. Use math words as you do so. Touch real objects so you can “see”

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Math Goggles: 3D printer adventures with Moebius strips

Endless Bacon

Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. The Moebius strip is the metaphor for everything endless or cyclic. Like what? Check out these composite symbols! infinity + luck = ? cycle + chase = ? endless + love = ?

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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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