I’m starting to think about what to do for the Family Math nights at my younger son’s school this year. During the day today I 3d printed 2 of Laura Taalman’s Peano Curves to see if that might somehow make a fun project for a group of 4th and 5th graders.
Taalman’s blog post about the curve is here:
Laura Taalman’s 3d-printed Peano curve blog post
The plan tonight was to have each kid talk about the curve (they’ve seen it before) and see what they thought was interesting. My older son went first:
Then my younger son:
For the last part of the project we took the curve off the base and stretched it out (almost) into a line:
I think there’s a fun project here – these take a long time to make, but I think with a week or two of printing prep that there’s a good 45 minute project for 4th and 5th graders in here somewhere.
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