Category: Make & Grow
Book review: “What’s unnatural?” by Jeremiah Dyke
Making abstract entities into characters with their own looks and personalities is a great idea related to many traditions. “Flatland” featured creatures embodying shapes in different dimensions. More recently, moe anthropomorphisms embody entities such as Wikipedia: The book “What’s unnatural” by Jeremiah…
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Math is Not a Worksheet
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBMhZfBzqyQ Some time ago Maria and I had a chance to present the Moebius Noodles project at an Open Source/Creative Commons event hosted by Red Hat. As we tried to distill our big ideas into a 3-minute presentation, we had…
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Gummy Bear Go! Game
This is the game my son and I are calling “Gummy Bear Go!” even though most of the time we play it with paperclips instead of treats. I got this game from the Russian mathematician Alexander Zvonkin’s book “Math from…
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Math Goggles #1 – Math-y Librarian
It’s time to put on the Math Goggles (not sure what these are? Head over here to find out). This week’s Math Goggles challenge is to visit a library. Once there, start looking around for math-y stuff. Once you find…
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