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 […]
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 […]
The more I learn about the exquisite connections between shape, number and nature, the more convinced I am that combining numbers and shapes is a win-win situation for building number sense in young children. For example, consider the benefits of exploring the basic, but charming, triangle. This mesmerizing video provides some exquisite, thought provoking examples of three-ness: httpv://youtu.be/1ztfo5S5oL4 […]
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 Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers“. To play the game […]
