What do kids see when they see ideas from advanced math?

Saw a really neat tweet from Steven Strogatz tonight:

Magnificent visualization of half a million points on the Lorenz attractor spreading into chaos (ht Red Giuliano, one of the students in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos class) https://t.co/k3oKHXvKHl via @YouTube

— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) March 20, 2018

I thought it would be fun to share it with the boys and just listen to how the described what they saw.

Here’s what my older (8th grade) son said:

Here’s what my younger son said when he saw the video:

It is fun to see ideas from advanced mathematics through the eyes of kids 🙂