Tag Archives: interactive

Picture this

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Brent

Picture this! is a very cool interactive thingy, made by Jason Davies, intended to get students (or anyone, really) thinking about some interesting math. Go play around with it and see if you can answer any of the listed questions … Continue reading →

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MangaHigh.com

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Brent

I recently received an email suggesting that I check out the website MangaHigh.com, which has interactive math-based games for elementary through high school students. Now, I am generally pretty skeptical of such things. For one, they are usually of relatively … Continue reading →

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Pentaflakes

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Brent

Just a link today: Mike Croucher over at Walking Randomly has some gorgeous pictures of fractal constructions called “pentaflakes”, made by recursively gluing pentagons together in various ways. He’s also made a Mathematica demonstration for playing around with various sorts … Continue reading →

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Mandelbrot Maps

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Brent

Run, don’t walk, to play with the Mandelbrot Maps applet, which lets you play around with the Mandelbrot set while seeing the associated Julia sets updated in real time. This fantastic applet was created by Iain Parris, an MSc student … Continue reading →

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