I’ve been looking forward to sharing two calculus ideas from Patrick Honner with my son for the last week. We were, unfortunately, a little rushed when we sat down and there are a couple of mistakes in the videos below. Even though things didn’t go perfectly, I really enjoyed talking through these ideas. Here’s the … Continue reading Sharing two of Patrick Honner’s calculus ideas with my son
Today I talked a little bit about implicit differentiation with my son. We are following the progression in an old copy of Stewart’s Calculus book that I have (the 3rd edition) and section 2.6 discusses implicit differentiation. After we had an introductory discussion this morning, Patrick Honner sent me this message: Since my son had … Continue reading An introductory implicit differentiation example thanks to Patrick Honner
Saw a fun tweet from Patrick Honner yeterday: It was the week of the state tests up here, so my kids had already spent quite a bit of time taking multiple choice tests this week. But one more test couldn’t hurt, right! Here’s the introduction to the test – I love my younger son’s reaction … Continue reading Trying out Patrick Honner’s self referential tests
Patrick Honner was a terrific guest on the My Favorite Theorem blog today: We’d done a blog post – inspired by Patrick Honner, obviously – about Varignon’s Theorem previously – Varignon’s Theorem – inspired by this tweet: After listening to today’s My Favorite Theorem episode I wanted to do a follow up project – probably … Continue reading Sharing Patrick Honner’s My Favorite Theorem appearance with kids
This is the 5th (of 5) in series of 4 dimensional explorations inspired by Patrick Honner’s Pi Day exercise: The first four parts in the series are here: Playing with 4 dimensional shapes using Zometool Introducing Patrick Honner’s Pi day idea in 4 dimensions Patrick Honner’s Pi day exercise in 4d: part 3 Patrick Honner’s … Continue reading Patrick Honner’s Pi Day exercise in 4d part 5: The 120- and 600-cells
This is the 4th (of 5) in series of 4 dimensional explorations inspired by Patrick Honner’s Pi Day exercise: The first three parts in the series are here: Playing with 4 dimensional shapes using Zometool Introducing Patrick Honner’s Pi day idea in 4 dimensions Patrick Honner’s Pi day exercise in 4d: part 3 Also, since … Continue reading Patrick Honner’s Pi Day exercise in 4d day 4: The Hyperdiamond
We are spending the week working through Patrick Honner’s Pi day exercise in 4 dimensions. The first two parts of our project are Playing with 4 dimensional shapes using Zometool Introducing Patrick HOnner’s Pi day idea in 4 dimensions Also, since I didn’t want to really dive into the “surface volume” and “hyper volume” calculations, … Continue reading Patrick Honner’s Pi day exercise in 4d – Part 3
This will be the 2nd of probably 4 blog post in a series about exploring Patrick Honner’s Pi Day activity in 4 dimensions. The first project (which includes the background) is here: Playing with 4 dimensional shapes using Zometool and Honner’s original post came to my attention via this tweet: and the main motivation for … Continue reading Introducing Patrick Honner’s Pi Day idea in 4 dimensions
[This is a quick post I wrote while my younger son was at a little math enrichment activity. Sorry it looks like it was written in a hurry and not proof read . . . ] Earlier today my older son and I played around with Patrick Honner’s Pi Day exercise: That project is here: … Continue reading Patrick Honner’s Pi day exercise in 4d
Saw this tweet from Patrick Honner yesterday: I liked the activity for a lot of reasons – it was a great way to review a little geometry and arithmetic, a nice opportunity to discuss more 3D geometry, and finally a lucky coincidence with our project from yesterday talking about the truncated cube and the truncated … Continue reading Patrick Honner’s Pi Day Exercise
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