Tag: math goggles
One to one hundred: a series of posters from Mark Gonyea
Mark Gonyea is an artist and graphic designer who recently crowd-funded an inventive and elegant series of 100-charts. The artwork caught my eye because the patterns were both adventurous and algebraic. Want to borrow my math goggles? Go on a…
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Math goggles: subitizing, unitizing, counting
Math goggles help you notice math everywhere. Here is something to notice: mathematics is not about numbers, it’s about patterns. When mathematicians deal with numbers, they use systems and formulas. Young mathematicians can start learning this wizardry from simple visual patterns.…
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Math goggles: tasty sphere packing around the world
Math goggles help you notice math everywhere. Maria João Lagarto has great math goggles when she makes adventurous Pinterest collections. For this post, I selected examples of round fruits, confections, and other morsels packed into triangles, pyramids, or cones. Even the…
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Math goggles: making “What if?..” collages
Math Goggles help you notice math everywhere. What if we had a planet for our moon? What if we had tiny hands at our fingertips? Photo sources: the skies; the hands; eye/mouth; the duck. Asking “What if?..” about everything is…
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