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String, Straight-edge and Shadow

June 14, 2018 By Lisa

string,straight-edge and shadow

String, Straight-edge and Shadow The Story of Geometry by Julia E Diggins, Floris Books Mixing history and legend this intriguing book explores geometry’s greatest discoveries and through stories and illustrations explains the geometric principles which underpin mathematics in our world   FLORIS BOOKS The tradition that we call GEOMETRY is so very much part of life […]

Filed Under: for teachers, geometry, parent interest, reading, Steiner Waldorf, teaching, World geometry Tagged With: 9+ years, book review, earth and the solar system, geometry

What are the Cross Quarter Days?

April 27, 2018 By Lisa

what are the cross quarter days?

What are the Cross Quarter Days? Naturally, I love this because it’s all about the geometry of the world and its journey, the passing of time, and how we observe the journey of the seasons. The Wheel of the year goes as you can see in the geometry. the Solstices divide the year in half […]

Filed Under: geometry, seasons, Steiner Waldorf, World geometry Tagged With: 9+ years, earth and the solar system, geometry, midsummer, seasons, solstice

A Journey through geometry books

March 16, 2016 By Lisa

projective geometry learnt from geometry books

A journey through geometry books Never have been a genius at maths in school, I couldn’t have imagined in later life I’d get a sudden urge to own all the geometry books I could find. I don’t remember ever doing geometry at school, I’m sure it was never classed as maths if I did. So the first […]

Filed Under: feature, geometry, parent interest, reading, Shape Hunting, Steiner Waldorf, Uncategorized, World geometry Tagged With: book review, bookshelf, geometry, reading

Midsummer madness

June 19, 2014 By Lisa

hay in sunshine in midsummer

Here we are in midsummer and there’s a global event which happens to us all this weekend. Midsummer and the Summer Solstice June 21st brings the Summer Solstice of midsummer in the northern hemisphere. Right now we are experiencing long daylight hours and barmy summer evenings. (at least I hope we are!) the dark days of the winter seem […]

Filed Under: children's activity, field trip parenting, parent interest, seasons, Steiner Waldorf, World geometry Tagged With: 2-4 years, 4-8 years, earth and the solar system, fairies, family, midsummer, play, solstice, summer

Signs of Spring and the Equinox

March 20, 2014 By Lisa

snake at equinox

Well done! You have made it through the winter. On March 20th we arrive again at an Equinox, this time the Spring or Vernal Equinox. This is the same as the Autumn Equinox only the other way around. For a simple, explanation of what an equinox is, What happens and why? make the ‘what is an equinox’ […]

Filed Under: children's activity, content, seasons, World geometry Tagged With: 7-9 years, art in architecture, earth and the solar system, patterns, snake

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