Thanks to an opportunity to collaborate with our friends in the Clonakilty Bike Festival, we are putting together an activity on ‘What is Rotational Symmetry?’. Details on the geometry of the pentagonal rotations available at Rotational symmetry of the Pentagon What is Rotational Symmetry? Repeated patterns around a fixed point. Rotational Symmetry can involve […]
Fibonacci Crafts
Using the numbers in the Fibonacci sequence to make Fibonacci crafts pieces is a useful way to bring understanding of the mathematical patterns from our head into our hands and hearts. The intellectual side of the numbers and what we can do with them in mathematical expressions is much documented in maths websites or lectures. […]
Keep fixed patterns to wallpaper
Last weekend the Guardian ran an article by George Monbiot. Here’s how to teach children in a world being shaped by AI. Known for his environmental work and nature writing/broadcasting, his reach crosses over into many areas of society one being childhood and education. “Rigidity is lethal. Any aspect of an education system that locks pupils […]
Fibonacci Rabbit Riddle
This article sheds some light onto what the Fibonacci Rabbit Riddle is. The Fibonacci rabbit riddle illustrates a self accumulating growth sequence. The origins of the riddle are quite interesting. It was actually a side note to a much bigger discovery Fibonacci had made which he was explaining in a book. This discovery is actually […]
Number Two and the Dyad
During my study of number as form in nature I always slightly overlooked the number TWO and with it the understanding of the Dyad. It was the numbers THREE and SIX that always drew my fascination and after that I was drawn to the wonders of FIVE as an archetype in natural forms. Number Two […]
The January Blues
The short days of January don’t seem to hold much opportunity to get outside, storm after storm have taken their toll on muddy paths and gardens. But I mulched the branches of the Christmas tree and made a tall bird feeder with the trunk. It’s drawing a few birds in search of food, which is […]
