Fractal Kitty
Making sense of the abstract.

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03
Jul
Triangle ABC with vertices labeled clockwise from the top and light, medium, and dark teal kites shading 3 regions with each vertex.

Inquiries-Week 3: Reflect and Rotate

Introduction Explore the reflection and rotation of polygons to discover the patterns that emerge. Polygon Play Let's start
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03
Jun
17 mod 5 = 2 is shown to display modular arithmetic.

Inquiries-Week 2: Modular Fibonacci

mod = 2
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20
May
9 circles shaded with black lenses and grey lunes showing the intersecting of a same sized circle in a row.

Inquiries-Week 1: Circle Shading

This is the first of a series of guided inquiries in math. If a document is preferred over a blog
5 min read
04
Apr
The complete graph of 238 - but it just looks like grey concentric circles with black dots on the edges.

238th Carnival of Mathematics

Wow! It's the 238th Carnival of Mathematics organized by Aperiodical. This has been a fun month with lots
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25
Mar
voronoi diagram with small cells down a vertical line in the center and large cells at the right and left edges

Time at the Recurse Center

In January, I kicked off a journey of reflection and growth at the Recurse Center (RC) – a retreat where you
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11
Feb
circles with words of birds, distance, tallies, icons, cinquains, and micro at vertices of a hexagon - lines between vertices

StreamOf.me

On winter solstice I had my personal "new-year" and I started an experimental journal of self. My motivation
5 min read
02
Feb

Math-ffirmations

Find balance through symmetry. $$f(x) = f(-x)$$ Approximation improves with experience. $$e^x = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^
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31
Jan
a gradient shading of overlapping circles from orange to purple

A Ripple of Ripples

One thing I love about math and art is the conversations and iterations that flow from their patterns and beauty.
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27
Jan
Wyrm Beans

Wyrm Beans

Do you ever look at knitted items and liken them to dragon scales? - I do. So when I decided
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21
Nov
circles along a wavy curve with random radii and shading is alternating between white  and blue gradients.

Walking Ripples

Over the last week I have been drawing circles along paths and then shading them with 2 colors using random
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