#hottake: What kids mean by "Math is useless" is less about math being used in the real world and more about lack of personal connection they feel to it. The remedy is to show them pieces of math that piqued OUR curiosity, not scientists' out there, since we don't know how they feel either. #MathSky
Spirograph art in blue and green with XOR pattern enabled.
Update: There's this very cool prototype by @fractalkitty.com that my students liked a lot. It does come with the XOR option, layers, and the animation on/off/speed toggle: quality of life! 🤩 a45bcc3f.inquiries-4i5.pages.dev/tools/simula... Image: art by a young kid using it for the first time.
Big Math made up Pi Day to sell more math. 🥧 π 👀
Tune in to hear me failing to answer any of Ben's questions and making up my own 🤣
Ben and I chat about the history of maths, why it's great, and how it can enrich education. And other stuff.
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New video, on mechanisms that illustrate the duality between the cube and the octahedron! Here's one of them: a linkage with fabric panels designed by Sabetta Matsumoto.
Full video at youtu.be/T9BNMLFHXUw
It looks like a hyperbolic surface!
I was playing around in @desmos.com Geometry with triangles that share the same nine-point circle, and I accidentally made a pretty pattern.
www.desmos.com/geometry/mk3...
#iTeachMath #MathSky
cartoon painting by moebius. figuresin bright clothes and tall hoods ride bottles of Perrier through space. the bottles are shooting rocket beams from their pour spouts, carrying the passengers past a cratered moon as they lounge and admire from the bottles exterior
how am i just now finding out that my favorite artist (Mœbius) did an ad for my favorite beverage (bubblewater)
Yes. The "Dune" universe reads as a cautionary dystopia about the wrong choice between (1) making the machines work with and for the people and (2) counter-progressive coup/upraising that rolls back some tech (except for the rulers, in secret), destroys democracy, and spreads feudal slavery.
Snow White and the Seven Bears. The bears sniff out the poison before she ever bites the apple and hibernate in company, so the problematic prince is also a nonstarter. 🐻
Two types of double cosine waves
Two types of double cosine waves
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#technicalart #computationalart #geometricart
uBlock Origin is my copilot! 🛩️
Oh, @geogebra.org is VERY accessible. Young kids start playing around right away, and you never see them again. 😅 I guess that's okay if they go into their own rabbit holes once we start with some parametric sliders.
A rosette made with a spirograph toy.
A rosette made with a spirograph toy.
We used a virtual spirograph toy with some students. It's a nice start, and I am looking for more options. www.diffgeom.org/software/Pir...
By some trick of color, this looks like paper cutouts.
To me, that sentence translated as, "An in-house data person used AI to pick through a body of work of subject specialists looking for nuggets that align with what the house wants the test to measure." I may be a cynical reader, but that's how the sentence reads to me.
There's rigor and rigor, no? Rigor as in mathematical depth, precision, and connections, evaluated by good peer review. And then, whatever is measured by the standardized tests.
Math: the credible hope. #iTeachMath
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
A multiply neurodivergent woman has finally collected enough stamps on her diagnosis loyalty card for a free existential crisis, according to reports.
Two types of exponential waves
Two types of exponential waves
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Looking back through the archives we thought we'd reshare this stop motion animation that was made in 2014 for our 60th Anniversary. We are over 70 years old as a business and still sell sets globally!
Buy your set of Cuisenaire rods here: cuisenaire.co.uk/shop/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vBB...
A lot of treasures inside a mirror book, creating a unique and symmetric world.
notice and wonder => choose and make
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Depluralize a movie:
Thor: That One God's Early Evening
Comprehensive presentation of the "Theorem of the Day", starting with a statement of this theorem. The Five Circle Theorem : Let the five sides of a pentagon ABCDE be extended until they intersect in five points P, Q, R, S and T , say. Then the five circumcircles of triangles BQA, APE, ETD, DSC and CRB intersect with each other in five distinct points, not lying on the pentagon and lying on a common circle.
Theorem of the Day (April 5, 2026) : The Five Circle Theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : buff.ly/ABY7ky7
notes : buff.ly/6UdRBvj
#mathematics #maths #math #theorem
Math = Power With. #iTeachMath
What email service do you use and like? The last straw from Gmail: trying to remove a tag from only ~200 selected messages, a mundane, one-click task. The response text? "Gmail will do this only for some of the messages, and it may happen over several hours." Yep, and with ~25% fail rate to boot. 😿
@triangleman.bsky.social ::wave::
Has anyone done math face paint at festivals? What did you paint, if so? #iTeachMath #MathSky #SciArt
Sorry if I asked earlier (I've been meaning to) - I can't find it.
