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randomness – a generative zine

randomness – a generative zine

I coded a generative zine to bring to XOXO 2024. It is different every time it loads with a sampling of p5.js sketches. Each zine has hundreds of thousands to millions of generated shapes and points using random numbers. The github is here (the code is slow to run and painful to read). If you […]

many lemniscates overlapping to make a narrow -wide-narrow shape almost like an ornament - black an white

Curve

I made Curve, a coloring book, to bring to XOXO 2024 this week. If you’d like to print/play: See the Pen Curve Zine by Sophia (fractal kitty) (she/her) (@fractalkitty) on CodePen.

Cantor Set Zine

Zines and Coloring

Cantor Set Zine

This is Fractal Kitty’s first zine! I was inspired by the public math website. Some wonderful zines from @becky_k_warren and @Ayliean are on there. After cutting the Cantor Set with Kirigami to investigate fraction operations, exponents, and patterns this week with my middle school groups I thought

rocks painted with math drawings

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 52: Math Rocks!

For week 52 of 52 Weeks of Hands-On Math, I couldn’t resist a play on words: Math rocks! This week I encourage learners to share their math in the neighborhood. Create sidewalk chalk art with Fibonacci hopscotch, paint a math rock garden, make a math obstacle course by your home, or have a piece of

A block print of a fibonacci sequence

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 51: Block Prints

I love thinking of mirror images when I am block printing. I will never forget the time I printed SPARK backwards on accident for a summer art camp and my kids laughed at the reverse phonics. This week I encourage learners to take a math concept, tessellation, or shape and create a print. Ways to […

the corner of a flip book

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 50: Flip Books

This week I encourage learners to play with their animation skills. Take a math concept, problem, or design and play with ideas to animate it. Start simple to warm up and then build on the ideas. Flip books are fun. I recommend using thinner paper that can be seen through so it is easier to […]

a game finished with blue marks and the red strike diagonally showing X won

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 33: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

Games don’t have to be complicated to require some good thinking skills. We all learn tic-tac-toe when we are younger. We soon learn how to always come to a stalemate with an equal opponent. Once you get the strategy, it can get a little boring… But what if we add a layer (or two) of […]

4 shapes with the same angles (drawn on isometric paper)

Additional Materials

Isometric Drawing (Class Video)

After teaching this a few times this week, I created a video so those that may want to pause and draw at their own pace while playing with isometric paper. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I love doodling on Isometric paper – enjoy! Here is a link to the isometric […]

an impossible shape where the outer edges are a hexagon

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 32: Isometric Drawing

Let’s get out our pencils, isometric paper, and thinking caps this week! Isometric drawings are often used in engineering and design as a way to display 3D ideas. They can also be used to create optical illusions and escheresque works of art. To start, print some isometric paper, or set your digital

paper torn with ink showing a person walking toward the sun

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 31: Angle Inquiry

Sometimes the simplest things have wonder hidden within. This week, learners can play with the angles of polygons. How many degrees are in a triangle? In a quadrilateral? In a hexagon? Is there a pattern? Here is a warm-up activity: Draw a triangle (any triangle), and cut it out. Next, rip the corne

a mountain scene with 4 colors (blues, grey and yellow)

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 30: Coloring is not Just for Kindergarten

I am trying to tell my 15yr old daughter that an elective high school credit in Graph Theory would be fun next year. Of course I do this as subtly as possible – I start drawing coloring sheets for this post on my iPad and then carefully shade them in. All three of my children […]