Author: Sarah Lonberg-Lew

Fun with Paper and Scissors and Tape

We started off this meeting with a brainstorm of what you can do with paper. Check out our Jamboard to see all the varied and creative ideas we came up with. 

I then led the group through an exploration that involved cutting, taping, noticing, wondering, making a prediction, and then more cutting. Here is a link to the slides. You can follow the pictures to do the exploration yourself. 

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Music and Polypad

We started this meeting with a warm-up question: What is something you are good at that you could teach someone else? It turned out we were a very talented group with skills ranging from kayaking to mountain climbing and from making enchiladas to reading and writing Egyptian hieroglyphs. 

We took some time on our own to explore some demonstrations of the new music and sound features of Mathigon Polypad. (To learn more, go to Using Polypad: Music – Mathigon.)

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Ring-a-Ding Numeration

We started this meeting with a notice and wonder with this image of the numbers 1 through 6 in a numeration system created by professor emeritus at Smith College Jim Henle. The system (a piece of mathematical art!) is called Ring-a-Ding Numeration. The rings are the circles and the dings are the dots.

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