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Sunday was the East Bay Mini Maker Faire at Park Day School. I liked it because there are lots of activities for kids to make and do things – even more than the big Maker Faire in San Mateo. My favorites were Riveropolis, Nerdy Derby and Hoop Play. I also really liked the crate stacking.
There has been lots of making going on at MoMath lately, which we’ll take a look at over the next few posts. Recently, one of our Math Encounters speakers needed a projection of a hypercube into three dimensions as part of a demonstration. So we used Great Stella 4D to make a nice projection in general position, in which no two vertices coincide in three dimensions, and then used the measuring tool in the program to get the edge lengths.
Philadelphia-based fourth grade science teacher Michael Carroll just finished writing his first novel about a 12-year-old kid detective named Dewey Mac, who loves science and making, titled Dewey Mac, Kid Detective and Inventor. Aimed at third through sixth graders, the book chronicles the tales of Dewey and his friend Ched, who start a detective agency […]
The world’s flooded with all kinds of teaching conferences, but not many that give their attendees a chance to literally get their feet wet! Joe Youcha sent us a ship-to-shore telegram about Teaching with Small Boats, which begins today at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. This unique conference takes learning out onto the water.
In my last blog post I went into detail about accessorizing Halloween costumes with homemade cardboard swords. Now, there is the main question left unansweredโฆwhat to do about the costume itself? The answer lies in the same material Iโve been happily preaching about since starting this blog โ sweet, sweet cardboard!
Today’s will be the last Bridges column, at least until next year — not because there isn’t plenty more to share, but because there have just been too many other things stacking up on the Math Mondays shelves. The final installment for this year is devoted to polyhedra and some of the incredibly diverse ways they can be presented.
Workshop Weekend is this weekend in Oakland, Calif. One to six hour long workshops on things like taste hacking, Arduino, wearable electronics, liquid nitrogen ice cream, sugar skull making and more are programmed over a weekend. A flat $40 admission gets you as many workshops as you can handle. Special discount code for MAKE readers inside the post.
