Joe's Tiny New York
Joe Macken is a truck driver from upstate New York. Back in 2004, when he was 41, he went into his basement with some balsa wood and started carving a tiny version of New York City, one building at a ...
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The HAT tessellation
An Einstein aperiodic tile has just been discovered. Find out what that means and why it is significant. Plus - play with the tiles. Do you want to tile your shower floo...
Gauss and our star of stars
How many stars are in this image and how did you count them?
For Adventurer members we have a teaching suggestions and our solution sheet.
Betsy Ross's 5-pointed star
Flag of the United States from 1777 to 1795.
In honor of Independence Day we thought it would be fun to look at one story about the first American Flag.
The rough desig...
Tree for Springtime
Here in the Northeast, flowers are blooming and trees are leafing out.
We thought the creation of a tree that grows before your eyes might be akin to what is going on all around us.
What d...
Ravensburger huge puzzle
This puzzle is gorgeous and HUGE!
Ravensburger says that if you spent 2 hours every day putting this puzzle together it would take you a year to finish.
What do you wonder?
Students ...
Pascal coloring and modular math
In this activity students have the opportunity to color as they investigate Pascal's triangle and the many useful patterns that it shows. The triangle is explored for patterns, coloring...
K-Pop and BTS, how much can they earn from Youtube and Spotify?
Bring a little K-pop music to your class with this activity.
Jason Kibbe, a terrific middle school math teacher in Chambersburg, PA, sent us an activity that he created for one of his stude...
Point of view
If you have a set of cubes for your classroom, this would make a great group hands-on project. Its an old puzzle but the activity deserves a revisit.
Below are two straight-on images of my ...
Fibonacci coloring
Let your students simply enjoy coloring our designs or artistically play with the whole creation of Φ designs.
Simply coloring our Fibonacci patterns might allow students to ponder th...