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The Zeno Catnap

The Zeno Catnap

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 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

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

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