Category: Make & Grow

Infinite thanks!

Infinite thanks to everyone who participates in our math adventures – kids, parents, teachers, readers, developers, artists, writers, researchers! Thank you, friends! You can make your own fractal words with FractType, and nested fractals with PhotoSpiralysis.

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Inspired by calculus: Friday math circle, Week 3

All the photos from this club | Parent notes This week we had a high-energy meeting with longer flows. When I run math circles, I prepare about five times more activities than I think I’ll need. Sometimes an activity does not

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Inspired by Calculus: Friday math circle, week 2

These are notes about young calculus adventures at a family Math Circle, a part of the Inspired by Calculus series. This week, we worked more on iterations and growth functions, and started to look at symbols. Thank you for the

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Fluency or Complexity

doubling towers

I am very proud of my 6-year old and the math discoveries he makes. Two days ago he came up with a proof that zero is an even number. Yesterday he built something he called “a square that has volume”

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