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geometric designs

simple designs, envelope doodles, bipartite graphs,
drawing labyrinths, modulo-phyllo, knot tiles

shapes with paper
origami butterflies, paper rhombic hexecontrahedron,paper rhombic triacontrahedron, edge colored icosahedron, origami cup, origami frog, knot tiles, window patterns, silver rectangle window patterns, spherical tetrahedron, origami envelope

shapes with numbers


polygonal numbers, mandelbrot set,
 finding polygonal numbers in multiplication tables, 
lucas number triangle, catalan number triangle, 
harmonic denominator triangle, euler's number triangle, 
something surprising in pascal's triangle,
tesseracts and factors

chess-related

knight's path puzzles, king's path puzzles, more knight's tour puzzles,
 knight moves, closing knight's tours, punctured tours

spirals

spiral drawings, sequences on number spirals, polygonal numbers on spirals
phyllotaxis, primes on a log spiral, hypocycloid scrambler and scrambler fractal

book reviews, other ramblings

mathematics of ancient Iraq, the best mathematics writing of 2011, mere calculation,
the math humor of Stephen Leacock,  
math as a tree, old math books, mathematics and friendship,
species and culture of mathematics,
jump math, halmos aphorisms

things from school


means and trig ratios, polygons and multiplication, 
polynomial division: the grid method,
multiplication table rainbows, grade one functions


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previously

  • ▼  2012 (19)
    • ▼  May (3)
      • liar-truther accusation graphs
      • return to the island of liars and truthers
      • on the island of liars and truthers
    • ►  April (3)
      • envelope doodle design family
      • some simple designs
      • phyllotaxis multiplication colouring pages
    • ►  March (8)
      • modulo phyllo
      • phyllotaxis & primes
      • another way to draw simple labyrinths
      • origami envelope redux
      • envelope doodle
      • prisoner's dilemma
      • three views of K(6,12)
      • some complete bipartite graphs
    • ►  February (3)
      • a fractal family
      • fractal island
      • better late than never: Mandelbrot Set
    • ►  January (2)
      • primes on a log spiral
      • the best of 2011
  • ►  2011 (25)
    • ►  November (5)
      • more window patterns in gsp
      • A4 window patterns and special triangles
      • animated iterations - too much fun
      • some gsp fractal sketches
      • butterflies, bus transfers, cotangents
    • ►  October (2)
      • tintin - the calculus affair
      • grade one functions
    • ►  September (3)
      • simple origami and math: traditional envelope
      • punctured knight's tours
      • spirals
    • ►  August (2)
      • tesseracts and factor lattices
      • more kixote: knight's tour puzzles
    • ►  July (3)
      • perspective
      • math blog aggregators
      • knight's path puzzle solutions
    • ►  June (5)
      • kixote, or knight's path puzzles
      • Hidato, or a king's tour
      • graph paper collection 1
      • jump math
      • sequences on a spiral
    • ►  May (1)
      • Polygonal numbers and multiplication tables (Proje...
    • ►  March (2)
      • closing time
      • knight moves
    • ►  January (2)
      • simple origami and math - paper cup
      • simple origami and math - jumping frog
  • ►  2010 (31)
    • ►  December (3)
      • functions and CCR
      • skeptics vs. constructivists
      • multiplication table with stars
    • ►  November (1)
      • this old math blog
    • ►  September (1)
      • mazes and labyrinths
    • ►  August (2)
      • the new math, 1965
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2009 (68)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (9)
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    • ►  August (4)
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  • ►  2008 (21)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (7)

topics

  • constructions (16)
  • education (5)
  • essay (15)
  • Fathom (16)
  • geometry (10)
  • GSP (16)
  • history (2)
  • origami (11)
  • pascal triangle (9)
  • phyllotaxis (3)
  • pi (3)
  • polygonal (18)
  • polyhedra (7)
  • polynomials (2)
  • probability (2)
  • Processing (6)
  • resources (6)
  • SAGE (2)
  • school math (25)
  • simulations (5)
  • spirals (12)
  • TinkerPlots (13)
  • trigonometry (5)
  • visualization (11)

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