Transforming Toothpicks: Transform One Configuration to Another!
Transforming Toothpicks
Noggin Joggin’: Math Puzzles Game Show Each question gives your brain a little workout!
Noggin Joggin’: Math Puzzles Game Show Each question gives your brain a little workout!
Triangle Sum Puzzle
Triangle Sums Puzzle
Tik Tok Inspired Dance Party: Will Mathematicians Make the New Viral Dance Trend?
Tik Tok Inspired Dance Party- Will Mathematicians Make The Next Viral Dance Trend
Solitaire Chess: Learn Your Moves!
Solitaire Chess- Learn Your Moves!
Outside Listening: Mapping Soundscapes
Author: Cynthia Nicol In May the hummingbirds arrive on Haida Gwaii. One afternoon my good friend and I sat out on her deck and were entertained for hours by the hummingbirds. We counted 17 hummingbirds sipping the nectar from two feeders stationed on the deck corners. Listen … can you hear their calls? Can you hear the beating/buzzing sounds of […]
Fractals in Plants 1
Author: Katherina von Bulow I went outside fractal-hunting today. I was looking at plants, and here are a few of my findings: A camelia flower, its petals […]
Fractals: What is the shape of a cloud?
Author: Katherina von Bulow Cloud photos credit to: Susan Gerofsky Here’s a lovely thing to do together, especially on a day when the sky is blue and those fluffy cumulus clouds are moving around in the wind. Try looking up (or better yet, lying on your back in the grass) and watching the clouds. You might […]
MATH IS FOR THE BIRDS! Part 2
This video is taken near Vancouver by Pacificnorthwestkate. The flight velocity and direction of one bird affects 7 around it which multiplies throughout the group.Like the movement of schools of fish, murmuration is an example of scale free behaviour correlations. No matter how large the flock of birds is, the action of each bird will […]