Glen Whitney

Instant Giant Tetrahedron

05/20/2013

Continuing a Math Mondays tradition of building Sierpinski triangles and tetrahedra out of various materials, today we're going to do...

05/13/2013

Here's a project we did a long time ago in collaboration with Vi Hart, that somehow never made it into...

05/06/2013

From the Museum of Mathematics The Math Mondays Experimental Making Labs recently received numerous binder rings in its Incoming Raw...

04/29/2013

A detailed, step-by-step illustration of how to make a tensegrity structure that you may not find in a lot of...

04/15/2013

It's good to know there's room in the world for two blogs devoted to the myriad of really cool things...

04/08/2013

The Museum of Mathematics' Glen Whitney shows you how to build an octahedron and more with light sticks, rubber bands,...

04/01/2013

For the Museum of Mathematics Last column, we saw some of the basics of modular origami with the Sonobe unit. ...

03/25/2013

There have been numerous installments of Math Monday on origami or kirigami of one mathematical form or another, but today...

03/18/2013

Looking for just the right snack at your next "We Love Geometry!" or "Athenian Appreciation Day" party? How about a...

03/10/2013

Here are some mathematical ideas for making kites from any number of pure geometric forms.