Coloring Workshop: Beautiful Symmetry (Suitable for all ages)
Tuesday, March 31
12:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloring-workshop-beautiful-symmetry-by-alex-berke-all-ages-tickets-100799496006
Alex Berke
Calm yourself with coloring and learn math in the meantime! Join Alex Berke, a creative computer scientist, civic hacker, and MIT Media Lab researcher, to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and puzzles.
Come ready to color with us!
Don't forget to bring your favorite coloring tools—your fine point colored pens, crayons, or a pencil you just found.
To participate, download and print out these coloring sheets: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qd7eIuPo5uR3UMDHVUineM5dwzAgld2t/view
About the Book: Beautiful Symmetry by Alex Berke
Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts.
Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.
Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.
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Tuesday, March 31
12:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coloring-workshop-beautiful-symmetry-by-alex-berke-all-ages-tickets-100799496006
Alex Berke
Calm yourself with coloring and learn math in the meantime! Join Alex Berke, a creative computer scientist, civic hacker, and MIT Media Lab researcher, to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and puzzles.
Come ready to color with us!
Don't forget to bring your favorite coloring tools—your fine point colored pens, crayons, or a pencil you just found.
To participate, download and print out these coloring sheets: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qd7eIuPo5uR3UMDHVUineM5dwzAgld2t/view
About the Book: Beautiful Symmetry by Alex Berke
Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts.
Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.
Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.
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3-D printing glass
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Dissecting and redesigning protein-based pattern formation
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Tubulane Inspired Ultrahard Polymers
https://scitechdaily.com/tubulane-inspired-ultrahard-polymers-are-full-of-holes-but-stop-bullets-better-than-solid-materials/
https://youtu.be/F8ANx7z4ahw
Buckyballs in space made from carbon dust of dying stars
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Research reveals key molecular events in crystal growth
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New high temperature superconductor, thorium decahydride (ThH10)
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Atomic-Level Imaging May Enable Metals With Unprecedented Properties
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Degrees of Freedom - origami furniture from a former SpaceX designer
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