Math Monday: Geometric Paper Flowers
Geometric shapes make for psychadelic flowers in this week’s Math Monday.
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Math Monday: Create Pixel Art with Corn
It’s time to start filling our mathematical cornucopia. Probably the most classic item to place in a cornucopia is decorative multicolored corn. But usually that has a very random pattern of coloration. Although randomness can be analyzed mathematically, sometimes to demonstrate mathematical ideas you want more precise control over your maize patterning. And that’s where […]
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Math Monday: The Quest for the Platonically Ideal Cornucopia
Create a cornucopia using math!
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Bagel Slicing, Fun with Mathematics, and “Math Monday” Reruns
Enjoy math and a nutritious breakfast with this bagel slicing for nerds tutorial.
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Folding Challenge: Can you do It?
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to use the information in this article to construct an actual physical model of one of the more interesting shapes or surfaces featured there, and send a photo to mondays@momath.org — if enough photos come that way, there will be a follow-up posting with some of the best
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Macadamia Grocery Geometry Challenge
Here’s the challenge: see if you can find a way to have five (or more?) cylinders of an aspect ratio at least close to 9.5 : 7 all touch each other simultaneously, and send a picture of the configuration to mondays@momath.org — the first/best solutions will be posted in a future installment.
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Parabolic Falls
Today’s post chronicles the creation of Parabolic Falls, a new participatory mathematical sculpture for Illuminating Mathematics, the first gala celebration of the National Museum of Mathematics this past Oct. 1.
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