This is the story of the fifth and final meeting of the Sunday Natural Math Circle doing activities inspired by calculus. The first activity was making a flip book out of cards. To figure out the size of designs, we used LEGO blocks. How many blocks fit on the card in a row? Will […]
This is the story of the fourth meeting of Sunday Natural Math Circle doing activities inspired by calculus. We started by reviewing some past “book art” style objects that transformed between 2D and 3D, like the spaceship… …And the spherical paper decoration Eli opened. Moving on to the next experiment: approximating circles. Start with a piece […]
This is a story about the fifth and final meeting of the Fridays session of our spring math circle. At the previous meetings, children claimed you can’t divide by zero, and Maria promised to show them how next time. “Wave at me if you have divided by zero!” – several parents did. Then, “Children, wave […]
This is a story about the third meeting of a Calculus for Kids math circle. During these meetings, we offer children and their parents prompts, but then follow their ideas to new places. This way, children help us design! Maria has returned from her trip to the Navajo Nation, and brought this vase. It is […]
