Bubbles were just in the air this week!
and last night flipping through Henry Segerman’s math and 3d printing book I found these bubble project ideas:
So I printed two of Segerman’s shapes overnight and tried out a new bubble project this morning.
I started with some simple shapes from our old bubble projects – what happens when you dip a cube frame in bubbles?
The next shape we tried was a tetrahedron frame:
Now we moved on to two of Segerman’s shapes. These shapes are new to the boys and they have not previously seen what bubbles will form when the shapes are dipped in bubble solution.
If you enjoy listening to kids talk about math ideas, their guesses and descriptions of the shape are really fun:
The second shape from Segerman we tried was the two connected circles. We actually got (I think) a different shape than I’d seen in Segerman’s video above which was fun, and the boys were pretty surprised by how many different bubble shapes this wire frame produced:
Definitely a fun project. I tried a bubble project for “Family Math night” with 2nd graders at my younger son’s elementary school last year. Kids definitely love seeing the shapes (and popping the bubbles).
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