Our friend Paula posted a video showing how to fold a small square out of paper. I thought it would be fun to ask my younger son to fold a small square before watching Paula’s video to see how he’d do it. Here’s what he did: Next I asked him to watch Paula’s video: Now … Continue reading A fun folding exercise for kids from Paula Beardell Krieg
A few weeks ago I got this question from Paula Beardell Krieg on Twitter: Today I went through this problem with the boys – the difficulty of this exercise surprised me a bit. They really struggled to see how you could tell if an angle was 72 degrees. Here’s the introduction. The boys noticed a … Continue reading Paula Beardell Krieg’s 72 degree question
Yesterday we studied how to build the pieces of Paula Beardell Krieg’s dissected cube: 3d printing Paula Beardell Krieg’s dissected cube shapes Today the shapes were done printing and I had the kids talk about them one more time: After that short conversation I had each kid tweak the code that we used to make … Continue reading Building Paula Beardell Krieg’s cube
I’ve been thinking about exposing the boys to math through 3d printing lately. Today I decided to explore making Paula Beardell Krieg’s cube shapes with them. Here’s the exploration the boys did back in March when we first got them: Even though we’ve played a bit with these shapes before I still thought that thinking … Continue reading 3D Printing Paula Beardell Krieg’s dissected cube shapes
I met our friend Paula Beardell Krieg today while she was visiting Boston. She gave me an amazing shape that she’d made with paper. The shape builds on a few other shapes that we’ve studied in some recent projects: So, tonight I showed the boys the shape and just let them play with it. Honestly, … Continue reading A fun present from Paula Beardell Krieg
Earlier in the week we got a nice surprise when we received a fun little pyramid puzzle from Paula Beardell Krieg: Our initial project using the shapes is here: Playing with an amazing present from Paula Beardell Krieg I thought a follow up project would be fun, so I decided to try out a basic … Continue reading Learning 3d geometry with Paula Beardell Krieg’s pyramids
We occasionally get interesting packages in the mail from Paula Beardell Krieg. For example: Paula Beardell Krieg’s Intersecting Squares and Paula Beardell Krieg’s Puff Boxes Paula Beardell Krieg’s Puff Boxes Day 2 Today we got a new one! I opened the top of the box before we got started, but only the top. I figured … Continue reading Playing with an amazing present from Paula Beardell Krieg
Saw a fun sequence of tweets from Paula Berdell Krieg last week: Then . . . we received an envelope! Next we compared the shape to the 3d prints it was based on: After this I showed the boys the tweet above that shows how to unfold the shape into a cube and they were … Continue reading Paula Beardell Krieg’s intersecting squares
Saw this great project from Paula Beardell Krieg yesterday: We even turned it into a fun little afternoon project since my younger son was home sick from school: Paula Beardell Krieg’s Puff Boxes Today I wanted to use the puff boxes for a project with both of the boys. We started by trying to recreate … Continue reading Paula Beardell Krieg’s puff boxes – day 2
Saw this super cool tweet from Paula Beardell Kreig today: My son was home sick from school (for the 3rd day in a row 😦 ), but this looked like a fun and not too taxing project for him. He loved it: I wasn’t home when he was working on the project, so I was … Continue reading Paula Beardell Krieg’s Puff Boxes
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