25+ Fun, Hands-On Activities for Learning with Shapes, Puzzles, and Games
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Köp båda 2 för 436 krRebecca Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and Michigan State. From her first job out of college, as one of the pioneers of Harvard's Internet education offerings, she has been passionate about encouraging her love for math in others. As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and Akamai Technologies, the number one firm in cloud computing, Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet revolution. She then returned to her first love, education, as an innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the critically important world of STEAM education as COO of an enrichment center dedicated to helping kids explore the creative side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and is currently developing and teaching innovative math curricula in the Boston area. Rapoport is also the co-author of Math Games Lab for Kids (published by Quarry Books), a book of fun, hands-on math activities designed to introduce elementary and middle-school students to several areas of higher math; and the calendars Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2021, Mathematics: Your Daily Epsilon of Math 2020, Mathematics 2019: Your Daily Epsilon of Math, and The Mathematics Calendar 2018, all published by Rock Point. She has an Erdoes number of 2.
Introduction 5 How to Use This Book 6 1 Geometry: Learn About Shapes 9 Lab 1: Prisms 10 Lab 2: Pyramids 12 Lab 3: Perfect Circles 14 Lab 4: Exact Ellipses 16 Lab 5: Draw Giant Circles and Ellipses 18 2 Topology: Mind-Bending Shapes 23 Lab 6: Compare and Classify Shapes 24 Lab 7: Moebius Strips 26 3 Color Maps Like a Mathematician 31 Lab 8: Map Coloring Basics 32 Lab 9: Efficient Map Coloring 36 Lab 10: Squiggle Maps 40 4 Stitching Curves 43 Lab 11: Drawing Parabolas 44 Lab 12: Stitching Stars 48 Lab 13: Creative Curves 50 5 Fantastic Fractals 53 Lab 14: Draw a Sierpinski Triangle 54 Lab 15: Build a Sierpinski Triangle 56 Lab 16: Draw a Koch Snowflake 60 Lab 17: Explore the Koch Snowflake's Perimeter 64 6 Graph Theory 67 Lab 18: Eulerian Circuits 68 Lab 19: Secrets of Eulerian Circuits Revealed 70 Lab 20: Bridges of Koenigsberg 72 Equilateral Triangle Template 74 Hints and Solutions 75 Resources 78 Acknowledgments and About the Authors 79 Index 80