What does calculus for young kids look like? And what can kids do with calculus? These are the questions we get a lot. So over the next 5 weeks we will be publishing a series of “Inspired by Calculus” posts. These are notes from a local math circle for 7-11 year olds, led by Maria […]
This post originally appeared on my personal blog on May 21, 2012. At the end of this post you will find a question related to the following story–I would love to hear your thoughts, ideas and responses. –Malke ______________________ Although I know it already, it never ceases to surprise me just how true it is. […]
Yelena McManaman’s son Mark loves deep ideas. Yelena writes: “Mark is obsessed with the idea of symmetry and infinity. Now he’s also trying to build up on his “zero infinity and infinite zero” ideas.” In one of his latest experiments, Mark invented a way to model fractals with two mirror books. There is a chapter on […]
One of the wonders of the ancient times is that many tribes and nations from different continents independently discovered and built patterns we call Labyrinths. Some math ideas are universal like that! Over the last decades, the Multiplication Tower idea has been appearing in many different projects. We interviewed authors from the 1970s to early 2000s, and […]
