Make & Grow

Do your kids draw grids? Part II: shape-filling grids

Maxime Grid Art

Want to participate in citizen science, collecting data of children’s math art? Happy to display your child’s creations beyond your the fridge? Then send us grid drawings! Thank you, Alexia Idoura, Maria Genkin, and Dan White for sharing your children’s art and stories. Here is Part I of “Do your little kids draw grids?”  And here […]

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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 work, and we switch. Other times there is good flow, but it only lasts a […]

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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 notes, Sue and Andrea! Thank you for taking pictures for our gallery, Linda and everybody […]

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