Looking at John Baez’s AMS Blog with kids

I’ve only got 10 minutes to write this before taking my son to his viola lesson, so . . . zoom zoom.

Saw a really neat blog post from John Baez today:

John Baez blogs on this beautiful symmetrical Hoffman-Singleton Graph by Félix de la Fuente https://t.co/3rvz3AAwiD. pic.twitter.com/dFqRyiZOU9

— American Mathematical Society (@amermathsoc) February 3, 2016

Given the recent fun we’ve had with Patterns of the Universe

 

and also Amazing math from mathematicians to share with kids

I thought it would be fun to hear what my kids thought of the Hoffman-Singleton graph.

4th grader:

6th grader:

I’m excited to look at graphs a little more with the boys. We did one project a while ago:

Going through Joel David Hamkins’s Gralph Theory for Kids

time to do more 🙂 (sorry for all of the likely typos!)