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New material will be added as time allows.  Last updated 01/07.

 

TESSELLATIONS 

Might take awhile to download

MATH ART
Student Created  - 2002 - 2003



FRACTALS

How to make a fractal quilt


MANDALAS
(Tibetan Monks website)

Make a mandala with a digital camera




EQUILATERAL SPIRALS

Further Explanation

 

 

 

 

 

ABACUS

How to work an abacus                                                                                        


 

KALEIDOSCOPES

Whales

 

EUCLID

Poem to Euclid


 

TESSERACT

How to “make” a tesseract

ESCHER

PAINTINGS  

ABOUT THE ARTIST

ESCHER SKETCH
  (Create your own design)

 

 

STUFF

 

Math Quilts
Crop Circles
Sacred Geometry
Labyrinths
Mazes        
SPAINT - So Much Fun
 

EINSTEIN

Magic Squares

 

    Relate to Science

SHAPES

PLATONIC & ARCHIMEDEAN
More shapes     Make your own

PENROSE

You might want to check out the tessellation slide show at top of page first, if you know little about tiling.

Explore in order:
1. Penrose Tiles
2. Examples made with Penrose Tiles
3. Seven groups possible
4. Penrose Quilt
5. Set of tiles
6. Penrose??
7. Connection to Golden Ratio
8. Relating to Science


 

NUMBER SYSTEMS

Mayan
         history


Roman
           

Babylonian
    
 history


Hindu-Arabic


 FIBONACCI
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, . . .

Designs

Who is Fibonacci

Phi (The Golden Ratio)


Fibonacci Spiral


How to make a golden rectangle(coming)

REVIEW TOPICS

Need some review?
 


 
 

EXCELLENT MATH SITES

 

Math Center

Manipulatives

Learn metrics

Convert units

Math in Art

NUMB3RS

   

    

QUESTIONS



What’s a Mola?
What’s a Pantograph?

Who’s Andrew Wiles?

What's an ambigram?

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