Math Mondays has been accumulating a lot of mail from all you fellow makers out there with a mathematical bent so today's installment marks the beginning of a series (the...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday June 17th, 2013 1:39 PM
Categories: Education | 2 Comments
The best-laid plans oft are improved with a dollop of rehearsal and testing, and so it was with the scheme for building the Instant Giant Tetrahedron at the recent World...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday June 10th, 2013 12:00 PM
Categories: Education | 2 Comments
Continuing a Math Mondays tradition of building Sierpinski triangles and tetrahedra out of various materials, today we're going to do it with mailing tubes. The basic unit requires six identical...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday May 20th, 2013 12:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Education | 2 Comments
Here's a project we did a long time ago in collaboration with Vi Hart, that somehow never made it into Math Mondays. The idea is simple: lay out pennies on...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday May 13th, 2013 12:00 PM
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From the Museum of Mathematics The Math Mondays Experimental Making Labs recently received numerous binder rings in its Incoming Raw Materials box. You know — the little circles that clip...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday May 6th, 2013 12:00 PM
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In honor of a recent visit to Kenneth Snelson's workshop, and as a continued tribute to Math Craft, which has a nice gallery of tensegrity projects, here's a detailed, step-by-step...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday April 29th, 2013 12:00 PM
It's good to know there's room in the world for two blogs devoted to the myriad of really cool things that you can make using or illustrating the wonders of...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday April 15th, 2013 12:06 PM
Categories: General, Photography & Video | 1 Comment
The Museum of Mathematics' Glen Whitney shows you how to build an octahedron and more with light sticks, rubber bands, and paper fasteners.
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday April 8th, 2013 1:37 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 1 Comment
For the Museum of Mathematics Last column, we saw some of the basics of modular origami with the Sonobe unit. Today’s post is mostly a gallery of a few of...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday April 1st, 2013 1:59 PM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
There have been numerous installments of Math Monday on origami or kirigami of one mathematical form or another, but today is the first time we've covered a classic workhorse from...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday March 25th, 2013 12:12 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Education | 4 Comments
Looking for just the right snack at your next "We Love Geometry!" or "Athenian Appreciation Day" party? How about a regular tetrahedron of cheese?
Posted by Glen Whitney | Monday March 18th, 2013 12:54 PM
Categories: Education | 3 Comments
Math Mondays is back from spring break with some mathematical ideas that are perfect for March's winds: you can make a kite with any number of pure geometric forms. First...
Posted by Glen Whitney | Sunday March 10th, 2013 11:23 PM
Categories: Education, Science | No Comments
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