This is news from participants in the open online course Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart. Subscribe to receive the mpsMOOC13 Observer by email | Read past issues | Visit the course page. Course tasks this week By July 3: Sign up! Log in to the question and answer hub Ask Moby […]
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mpsMOOC13 Observer June 24: Peer learning, video conference, mixed ages
This is news from participants in the open online course Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart. Subscribe to receive the mpsMOOC13 Observer by email. Visit the course page. Peer learning: here comes everybody! As of this newsletter forty-two adventurous families, homeschool groups, and math circles said they will work […]
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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 we recently made a guest post. This reminded me of the new Mathematical Imagery gallery from […]
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Paper Weaving and Grid Games
Patrick Honner’s Moebius Noodles guest post on mathematical paper weaving was very inspiring to me. Mathematical weaving employs one of my favorite making materials – colored paper! It was actually sort of challenging to get started, but after playing around I landed on some solutions which became a nice little unit of paper weaving and […]
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