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Playing with patterns

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Playing with patterns

I have been enjoying summer communities in math learning. Howie Hua has been hosting a wonderful group on Wednesdays, and last week Shelby Strong with Stronger Math shared Fawn Nguyen’s Visual Patterns resource and I had to play with creating some randomly generated patterns (below). These patterns

lego graph with quadrants labeled

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 7: Cartesian Coordinates

This week learners can get hands on with plotting. I encourage learners to investigate the history behind the Cartesian Coordinates (it’s interesting – I was just reading about it in Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz). The idea is to plot with D&D figures, chalk, legos, or watercolors. Make

lux blox arranged in a line as a bar chart for the digits of pi

52 Weeks of Math Activities

Week 6: Randomness using pi

This week, learners will create a work of art using pi. The goal here is not to understand pi, but to play with randomness. We will dive into the ratio of circumference and diameter another week. Pi’s decimals go on forever and without a pattern. Here are some ideas

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