Events of January 2007
- Battell School Boys and Girls Club Math Studio
- Jan 12, 2007 – May 18, 2007
- Math Studio meets on Fridays during game time. Stop by
as often as you like to fold origami polyhedra, build polyhedra from
plastic Polydrons, build electric circuits, play math games, and
learn about logic using integrated circuits.
- Family Math Activity -- Owls and Voles
- Jan 13, 2007
- Play the part of a family of barn owls and determine how many voles
you can eat without destroying your food supply. Based on actual
hunting rates, we will use our model to estimate the number of voles
needed to support a barn owl family.
- Family Math Activity -- Perspective Drawing
- Jan 20, 2007
- What is the best place to stand in order to make a painting or photo
look three dimensional? Learn secrets of perspective drawing that
revolutionized painting during the Renaissance.
- Montessori Family Night at ETHOS -- Sonobe Polyhedra
- Jan 25, 2007
- Fold paper to create colorful Sonobe ornaments.
- Family Math Activity -- Historical Number Systems
- Jan 27, 2007
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Build your own abacus. Then travel back in time and around the world
to encounter different ways that people have represented and
calculated with numbers.
