Author: MariaD
Math+Art photography <== Scientific American <== Moebius Noodles
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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Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart: Newsletter June 15, 2013
Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is a special issue of my newsletter. You are invited to participate in our next book-making effort. It is also a course, and a citizen science project. For sign-up information, email me at: moby@moebiusnoodles.com…
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“Little people, big play, and big mathematical ideas” by Robert Hunting
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:…
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Geometry in the sand
This is a guest post by Joseángel Murcia of TocaMates, translated from Spanish by Ever Salazar. Sand has always been a good place to do geometry. In fact, ancient Greeks used it instead of the “modern” blackboards to show their ideas…
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