More on spinning sculptures
In an odd coincidence with our last class, Science Friday just put up a video about the sculptor!
Playing with Symmetry
Mirrors What happens when we have two mirrors? What if the mirrors are parallel? What if instead they intersect? What if we make the angle between them larger or smaller? How many images do we see? Try the activity and followup here. Rotations Rotations can give powerful effects, especially when you combine multiple rotations or introduce… Read More Playing with Symmetry
Project 3
For this project, you have a choice to work in symmetry patterns or in geometric sculpture. Option A: Symmetry Patterns Develop a portfolio of symmetry patterns. Your portfolio should include a total of 5 patterns. The choice of symmetry type is up to you, as is the choice of the type of work and method… Read More Project 3
Symmetry comments!
We started talking about symmetry last week with the snowflakes exercise. Since we won’t be together on Monday, post two (or more) images related to symmetry. These could be pictures that you take of symmetry in the world, your own sketches or other work, or symmetric pieces you like done by others. Post them in… Read More Symmetry comments!
Making Geometry: Part I
For the last few weeks, we have made various things and I want to give links and resources to help you make and build more! Polyominoes! For our first exploration we took a look at polyominoes. There are a number of games and puzzles that make use of tetrominoes (Tetris) or multiply polynominoes (Blokus). We… Read More Making Geometry: Part I
Class 7: Wrapping up Infinity
This class we finished up the ideas explored in class 6. We reviewed all of the ideas of the past few weeks and proved that there are more real numbers between 0 and 1 than there are counting numbers. Vi Hart provides a summary of the work we have done in this video. We then… Read More Class 7: Wrapping up Infinity
Class 6: More Infinity
This last week before break, we went more in-depth into infinity. We did a coloring exercise and learned that we can add up infinitely many numbers and still get only 1. You can find the exercise here. We talked about why 1/3=0.333333… and why 0.9999999…=1 (even though that seems nuts). We also watched this Vi… Read More Class 6: More Infinity
Project 2: Infinity!
Your second project involves infinity. A full description can be found at this link!
Design for Learning Stats
A student at Brown, Daniel Kunin, has created a terrific visual resource for explaining statistics. It is called Seeing Theory, and it is hosted at Brown. Under the hood, it features Mike Bostock’s JavaScript library for creating visualizations, D3. For anyone interested in visualizing quantitative information, it’s a delight!
Class 5: Introducing Infinity
In class today, We started by talking about infinity and the different images and ideas that come up when we talk about the infinite. Then we watched a Vi Hart video “Infinity Elephants” that provided an introduction to some important ideas, while looking back at fractals. Particularly, Vi mentioned that there were different sizes of… Read More Class 5: Introducing Infinity
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