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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Extra second, and celebrating a gigasecond
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Extra second, and celebrating a gigasecond. Last night an extra second was added to world time. It happened at 23:59:60 UTC, or Universal Time which is the same as Greenwich Mean Time minus daylight savings. Here in Norway we're at GMT 1 which is UMT 2, so it happened just before 2:00 am here. One morning I got an email from a guy I hadn't from in 10 years. The email simply said "Happy Gigasecond! Had I missed it? Subscribe to:...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Ballooning with Vi Hart
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Ballooning with Vi Hart. Ran a mathematical balloon sculpting workshop at the Bridges conference in Pécs Hungary summer 2010. Here's the effervescent Vi with an icosahedral balloon sculpture, and me inside her group project Sierpinski pyramid. Squeaky fun! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Ballooning with Vi Hart. Extra second, and celebrating a gigasecond.
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: The Human Kaleidoscope
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Here's my film that debuted at the Bridges International Math Art Conference in Baltimore, MD, July 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Build a Fractal tetrahedron (instructions). Ive built several of these fractal tetrahedra before. Its a nice group project and can motivate discussion on geometric ideas. Thi. Game of Thrones 7-pointed star. Vi Hart ran a...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Factor Visualization
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Stephen Von Worley has a lot of great data visualizations on his site, but this one struck me as especially cool: http:/ www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/. I did a series of screenshots and made this composite image of the integers 1-49. February 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM. Is there a poster available or can I make my own? September 23, 2013 at 7:12 PM. September 23, 2013 at 11:18 PM. No it wasnt ...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Math of Vegetables on Schrödingers Katt
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Math of Vegetables on Schrödingers Katt. I was on TV last week, talking about the mathematics of vegetables on a popular science show called Schrödingers Katt. It airs on NRK, the national broadcasting service. We filmed in September. And they had a pretty quick turnaround on production. Http:/ tv.nrk.no/serie/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Waiting in a ...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Human Hypercube
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. And you'll have a 4-dimensional hypercube. The pictures above show the changes from 0-d to 4-d. 1 Describe how the number of vertices changes. Write a formula. 2 Describe how the number of line segments changes from one figure to the next. Write a formula. 3 Describe how the number of squares changes. Yep, formula. 4 Describe how the number of cubes changes. 5 Predict the properties of a 5-d hypercube. Can you draw one? Its For...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Math Munch
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. I met a lot of great people at the Bridges conference this year, among them Justin Lanier, Paul Salomon and Anna Weltman, authors of the Math Munch blog. They did a short write up on my stuff that you can find here: http:/ mathmunch.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/mike-naylor-math-magic-and-mazes/. Be sure to check out the other stuff they have on their site. Good stuff! August 23, 2012 at 11:24 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: November 2013
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. I've been writing the weekly blog for the National Center for Mathematics Education in Norway. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Build a Fractal tetrahedron (instructions). Ive built several of these fractal tetrahedra before. Its a nice group project and can motivate discussion on geometric ideas. Thi. Game of Thrones 7-pointed star. Ballooning with Vi Hart. Vi Hart...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: Magic Static Cat
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Two pieces of transparency film printed with static, taped on opposite sides of a piece of glass. From the right angle, the static aligns and the Cheshire Cat appears. This is hanging outside of my office in the elevator lobby. It's fun to point out to visitors. How does it work? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Ballooning with Vi Hart. Stephen Von Worley ha...
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics: April 2013
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Mike Naylor - creative mathematics. Mathematics, art, projects and resources. Been slow to update this blog, as I've starting blogging for the Norwegian Center for Mathematics Education. Here's some good stuff, but it's in Norwegian. http:/ www.matematikksenteret.no/bloggarkiv/. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mathematician, artist, teacher, designer. View my complete profile. Build a Fractal tetrahedron (instructions). Game of Thrones 7-pointed star. 7-sided dice. With activities! These bring many questions...
