Fractal Kitty (Page 11)

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a cat drawn with red tangent lines and a derivative equation and then a kitty made of red bars and an integral equation

Differential vs. Integral Kitty

I have been reading Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz as part of a twitter book club and decided to incorporate Fractal Kitty as I go through. This one is from the introduction. I really contemplated playing more with a comic for the Infinity Principle and still may.

$a bird and tree fractal make with photography composites$

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 5: Tell a Tale (or comic)

No matter what grade/age, stories are fun. This week, I encourage learners to read and write math stories. Take a concept and illustrate it through the art of story. Write comics, picture stories, murder mysteries, fantasies, plays, etc. Students can act out their story, create a stop animation, or

a kitty looking at two pies with the equation tau = 2pi

Kitty likes Tau day…

a sketch of an icosahedron with charcoal

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 4: Polyhedra Study

Leonardo da Vinci was a mathematician, inventor, and artist. His sketches in The Divine Proportion are a wonderful collection to study. Spatial awareness and being able to draw what we see are skills that can be mastered through practice. This week, I encourage learners to sketch polyhedra from cubes to

a sine diagram with formulas where the wave is a cat tale attached to a cat

A Sine of Kitty

an origami octahedron with geometric paper

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 3: Sonobe Octahedron

Octahedra are such fun shapes. This week we are going to learn an important fold in origami that can be used to make so many mathematical shapes, puzzles, and works of art. We are going to learn Sonobe. Below is a video of how to create the basic fold and

a kitty sleeping in a recursive tree branching with smaller kitties with binary in the sky.

Kitty in a Binary Tree

If you must translate, then here it is: 01010100 01101111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101110 01100001 01110000 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101110 01100001 01110000 00111111 00100000 01010100

paper with spiral of Theodorus with two hands a pencil and a ruler

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 2: Spiral of Theodorus

This week the Spiral of Theodorus can be used to enhance understanding of the pythagorean theorem, right triangles, pi, and more. The spiral goes by many names (square root, Pythagorean, or Einstein Spiral) and approximates the Archimedean Spiral. Instructions: 1.) Create a right isosceles triangle where the sides that are

a kitty in a triangle tile that is repeated in the padovan sequence

Padovan Sequence Triangulated Kitty

a kitty walking on a mo

Möbius Kitty

embroidery with green string of curves formed with straight lines

Week 1: Embroider Curves with Lines

Welcome to 52 weeks of math! Week 1 is one of my favorites – drawing with thread. In this activity, learners will play with their rulers (or thread) to create curves with lines. The idea is to have students draw straight lines close together with various slopes to create curves. For

comic of cat thinking of cats arranged as a sierpinsky triangle

Sierpinskitty

Here is tonight’s doodle while planning this website. Sierpinskitty daydreams are something I can relate to.

Fractal Kitty begins!

I sometimes feel like a broken record. I repeat so much in conversation with parents, educators, and students when I consult with them on learning math that finally I sat down and brainstormed a website to share my ideas and best practices that I have used through the years. My plan is to share my [

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