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In a partnership between the Museum and Make: Online, George Hart writes a weekly column discussing fun, experiential, and puzzling topics in mathematics. Collected here are the Math Monday posts from past weeks. These articles each first appeared on Make: Online.

Mathematical Quilting
JANUARY 23, 2012
Make a Ball of Cards
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Knitting Napier’s Bones
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Four Triangles Again
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Four Paper Triangles
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
An Octahedron in a Balloon
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Light Stick Construction
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
String Hyperboloid
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Catenary Arch Toy
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Tensegrity Balls
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Pentominoes
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Candy Pi Calculator
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Make a Mathematical Haircut
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Relativity for Real
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Giant Bead Construction
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Math Candy
AUGUST 29, 2011
Wood Polygons
AUGUST 22, 2011
Playing Cards
AUGUST 15, 2011
Make a Ball of Money
AUGUST 8, 2011
Mathematical Beadwork
AUGUST 1, 2011
Nested Helices
JULY 25, 2011
Shadowfolds
JULY 18, 2011
Coffee Stirrers
JULY 11, 2011
Star Sphericon
JUNE 27, 2011
The Squared Square
JUNE 13, 2011
Pencil Star
MAY 2, 2011
Microscopic Fractals
APRIL 25, 2011
Candy Images
APRIL 18, 2011
Mailing Tubes
MARCH 28, 2011
Modular Clothing
MARCH 14, 2011
Quilted Geometric Spheres
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Geodesic Dome Chicken Coop
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Light Dimmer Knobs
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Office Supplies
JANUARY 31, 2011
Five Tetrahedra
JANUARY 24, 2011
Scroll Saw Fractals
JANUARY 10, 2011
Temari Balls
JANUARY 3, 2011
Vi Hart Math Doodles
Math Doodles
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Egg Carton Constructions
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Bagel Cutting Revisited
DECEMBER 6, 2010
Giant Wobbler
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Colossal Compounds
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
Wearable Geometry
Wearable Geometry
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Gyrangle
Gyrangle
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Wire Torus Challenge
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Knot Sphere Thumb
Paper Knot Pentagons
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Vi Hart Applatonicsolids
Hilbert Embroidery
Mathematical Needlepoint
AUGUST 30, 2010
Crochet Thumb
Mathematical Crochet
AUGUST 23, 2010
Polyhedron Quilt
Mathematical Quilts
AUGUST 16, 2010
Origami Compound of Prisms
Geometric Origami
AUGUST 9, 2010
Ambras Object
The Twisted Torus
AUGUST 2, 2010
Twirligami Thumb
Twirligami
JULY 19, 2010
Nick Sayers Tape Measure Thumb
Found Objects
JULY 12, 2010
Ulrich Thumb
Kirigami Polyhedra
JUNE 28, 2010
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Modular Kirigami
JUNE 14, 2010
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Magnet Constructions
APRIL 12, 2010
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Paper Plate Geometry
MARCH 29, 2010
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Balloon Polyhedra
Balloon Polyhedra
MARCH 1, 2010
Sierpinski-tetrahedron
Sierpinski Tetrahedron
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
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Skewer Hyperboloid
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Morton-Bradley
Morton Bradley Sculpture
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
tetraxis
Tetraxis Puzzle
JANUARY 25, 2010
Zometool-Sculpture-detail
Giant Zometool Sculpture
JANUARY 18, 2010
BurrPuzzle
Giant Burr Puzzle
JANUARY 11, 2010
SOMA-wood
Giant SOMA Puzzle
DECEMBER 28, 2009
knot-2-3
Tie Your Bagel in a Knot!
DECEMBER 21, 2009
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Playing Card Constructions
DECEMBER 14, 2009

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