At this location, you can ask your participants to imagine that they were working on construction for this building, and that the panes of glass in the main grid of […]
Math Tours
Dallas Arts District: Booker T. Washington School Pegasus
2017 March 8 – 12:04 am
Obviously for a walk in the Dallas Arts District, it’s important to highlight ways in which math and art interact with and enrich each other. One opportunity to do that […]
Dallas Arts District: Winspear Opera House louvers
2017 March 7 – 12:27 am
This post is the first in a series detailing a large number of math tour stops designed for the walkSTEM tours of the Dallas Arts District. The tours begin at […]
Everyday Regular Pentagons
2017 February 25 – 12:17 am
You might be doing a shape scavenger hunt and want to add the otherwise elusive regular pentagon to your list of shapes, or you may just want to ask what […]
Hyperbolas from Light Fixtures
2015 October 15 – 1:00 am
When you see light from a fixture shining against a wall, you often observe some very clear, sharp curves as the boundaries between light and dark areas. Those curves are […]
Tours are Modular
2015 October 15 – 12:20 am
A big bag of mathematical tricks will help create your own tours in virtually any context.
Dream a Theme
2015 October 15 – 12:08 am
✹ You want the tour to gel into an experience for the participants. ✹ Distills and reinforces a “take-home message”. ✹ Helps to filter the myriad of ideas that you […]
Use the Built Environment
2015 October 15 – 12:06 am
✷ Shows math is useful and that people use it to make our world a better place. ✷ Mathematical ideas are used so often for and in decoration and adornment. […]
Dallas Arts District: Booker T. Washington School Pegasus
Obviously for a walk in the Dallas Arts District, it’s important to highlight ways in which math and art interact with and enrich each other. One opportunity to do that […]
Dallas Arts District: Winspear Opera House louvers
This post is the first in a series detailing a large number of math tour stops designed for the walkSTEM tours of the Dallas Arts District. The tours begin at […]
Everyday Regular Pentagons
You might be doing a shape scavenger hunt and want to add the otherwise elusive regular pentagon to your list of shapes, or you may just want to ask what […]
Hyperbolas from Light Fixtures
When you see light from a fixture shining against a wall, you often observe some very clear, sharp curves as the boundaries between light and dark areas. Those curves are […]
Tours are Modular
A big bag of mathematical tricks will help create your own tours in virtually any context.
Dream a Theme
✹ You want the tour to gel into an experience for the participants. ✹ Distills and reinforces a “take-home message”. ✹ Helps to filter the myriad of ideas that you […]
Use the Built Environment
✷ Shows math is useful and that people use it to make our world a better place. ✷ Mathematical ideas are used so often for and in decoration and adornment. […]