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In a partnership with Make: Online, MoMath presents 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.

A Base Beyond
October 30, 2017

Access to Addition

Access to Addition
October 23, 2017

Ternary Time

Ternary Time
October 16, 2017

Marbinary Counter

Marbinary Counter
October 9, 2017

Marble Machine 1

Marble Machines
October 2, 2017

Magnus Wenninger

Remembering Magnus Wenninger
July 24, 2017

Hole Polyhedra

Hole New Polyhedra
June 26, 2017

Paragons

The ParaGons System
March 6, 2017

Dodexcavation

DODEXcavation
February 27, 2017

TriangularPhun

Triangle Phun
February 20, 2017

TriangularTrial

Triangular Trial Run
February 13, 2017

TonsOfTriangles

Tons of Triangles
February 6, 2017

QuickGiantPolyhedra

Quick Giant Polyhedra
January 30, 2017

PolyhedralPop

Polyhedral Pop
January 23, 2017

Flakey

Make A Flake
January 16, 2017

Boxes

Boxtahedra
January 9, 2017

Helicitrus

Helicitrus
January 2, 2017

AdvancedPolyFruit

Advanced Polyedral Fruit
DECEMBER 26, 2016

PolyPear

Polyedral Fruit, Part Two
DECEMBER 19, 2016

Fruits

Polyhedral Fruit, Part One
DECEMBER 12, 2016

PaperFlower

Geometric Paper Flowers
DECEMBER 5, 2016

CornPixel

Corn Pixel Art
NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Cornumathcopia
NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Fractal Holiday

Fractal Holiday
NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Plane Polyhedron

Planes and Trains and Polyhedra
NOVEMBER 7, 2016

boypapermodel_tiny

Folding Challenge: Can you do It?
NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Macadamia Grocery Geometry Challenge
NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Parabolic Falls
NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Creating a Knitting Needle Hypercube Shadow
OCTOBER 21, 2013

Plenty of Polyhedra
OCTOBER 14, 2013

Recurring Themes at Bridges
OCTOBER 7, 2013

Tubular Trefoils
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Enter the (Paper) Matrix
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Taking Making to the Limit
AUGUST 19, 2013

String art, Bridges Style
AUGUST 12, 2013

Math Mondays Goes to Bridges
AUGUST 5, 2013

Beginning of a String
JULY 29, 2013

Sonobe Sendings
JULY 15, 2013

tensegrityicosa

Tensegrity Talkback
JULY 8, 2013

Still Going ‘Round in Circles
JULY 1, 2013

raynsford31greatcircles

Coming Full (Great) Circle
JUNE 24, 2013

Readers Respond: Kite Math
JUNE 17, 2013

Instant Tetrahedron Report
JUNE 10, 2013

Instant Giant Tetrahedron
MAY 20, 2013

Penny Sierpinsky Triangle
MAY 13, 2013

Things from Rings
MAY 6, 2013

DIY Tensegrity
APRIL 29, 2013

design-your-own-playing-card-sculpture-w654

Tribute to Math Craft
APRIL 15, 2013

Light Still Sticks
APRIL 8, 2013

sonobelevel2menger

Sonobe Some More
APRIL 1, 2013

Introducing the Sonobe Unit
MARCH 25, 2013

finishedcheddartetra

Platonic Party Platter
MARCH 18, 2013

Geometry Takes Flight
MARCH 10, 2013

Business Cards III
FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Linkages: One Last Spin
FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Linkages: Give ’em the Second Degree
JANUARY 28, 2013

Linkages: The Straight Dope
DECEMBER 17, 2012

Linkages: Let’s Get This Straight
DECEMBER 10, 2012

Business Cards II
NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Twelve Pentagons, Twenty Hexagons
NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Even Greater Circle
NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Business Cards, Part 1
OCTOBER 29, 2012

Grocery Geometry Revisited
OCTOBER 22, 2012

Linkages, Part 8 – In Search of Straightness
OCTOBER 15, 2012

Linkages: The World “B.X.”
OCTOBER 8, 2012

Linkages: Biomimicry
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Linkages: Four Bars, More Positions?
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Linkages, Part 4: Four Bars, Four Positions
AUGUST 27, 2012

Linkages, Part 3: Four Bars, Two or Three Positions
AUGUST 13, 2012

Linkages – Four Bars, One Freedom
AUGUST 6, 2012

Linkages – An Introduction
JULY 30, 2012

Those Circles are GREAT!
JULY 23, 2012

Prime Wardrobe
JULY 9, 2012

Try a Torus
JULY 2, 2012

Tetrahedron Ripples
JUNE 25, 2012

Hula Hoop Geometry, Part 2
JUNE 11, 2012

Hula Hoop Geometry, Part 1
JUNE 4, 2012

Grocery Geometry
MAY 21, 2012

Live-In Polyhedra
MAY 14, 2012

Paper Polyhedra
APRIL 30, 2012

Make Designs in the Snow
APRIL 9, 2012

12-Card Star Puzzle
APRIL 2, 2012

Make a Marble Run
MARCH 26, 2012

Acrylic Frabjous Kit
MARCH 19, 2012

Color 3D Printing
MARCH 12, 2012

Floppy Disks
MARCH 5, 2012

Mathematical Models from a Chemistry Kit
FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Truchet Tiles
FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Large Stars
FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Passing a Cube Through Another Cube
JANUARY 30, 2012

Mathematical Quilting
JANUARY 23, 2012

Slice a Bagel into 13 Pieces with Three Cuts
JANUARY 9, 2012

Make a Ball of Cards
DECEMBER 26, 2011

What to Make from Binder Clips?
DECEMBER 19, 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

Flexible Stick Structures
OCTOBER 3, 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

Knit or Crochet a Dodecahedron
JUNE 20, 2011

The Squared Square
JUNE 13, 2011

Cardboard Catenary Arches
JUNE 6, 2011

Fold Your Own Hyperbolic Paraboloids
MAY 23, 2011

Stained Glass Polar Zonohedron
MAY 16, 2011

Cut and Fold Escher
MAY 9, 2011

Pencil Star
MAY 2, 2011

Microscopic Fractals
APRIL 25, 2011

Candy Images
APRIL 18, 2011

Mathematical Coffee Table (Part II)
APRIL 11, 2011

Mathematical Coffee Table
APRIL 4, 2011

Mailing Tubes
MARCH 28, 2011

Spherical Weaving with Pipe Cleaners
MARCH 21, 2011

Modular Clothing
MARCH 14, 2011

Elliptical One-Sheet Furniture
MARCH 7, 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

Personal Rapid Prototyping Machines
JANUARY 17, 2011

$scrollsaw-fractal-2$

Scroll Saw Fractals
JANUARY 10, 2011

Temari Balls
JANUARY 3, 2011

Mathematical Lathe Work, Part II
DECEMBER 27, 2010

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

3D Hilbert Curve in Steel Pipe
NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Wearable Geometry

Wearable Geometry
NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Gyrangle
NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Wire Torus Challenge
OCTOBER 25, 2010

What to Make From Drinking Straws?
OCTOBER 18, 2010

Knot Sphere Thumb

Paper Knot Pentagons
OCTOBER 11, 2010

Vi Hart Applatonicsolids

Mathematical Fruit Carving
OCTOBER 4, 2010

$Math Mob Complete Graph$

Human-Scale String Constructions
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Geometric Sculpture Barn Raising
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Hilbert Embroidery

Mathematical Needlepoint
AUGUST 30, 2010

Mathematical Crochet
AUGUST 23, 2010

Polyhedron Quilt

Mathematical Quilts
AUGUST 16, 2010

Origami Compound of Prisms

Geometric Origami
AUGUST 9, 2010

The Twisted Torus
AUGUST 2, 2010

Binder Clip Constructions

Binder Clip Constructions
JULY 26, 2010

Twirligami Thumb

Twirligami
JULY 19, 2010

Nick Sayers Tape Measure Thumb

Found Objects
JULY 12, 2010

Kirigami Polyhedra
JUNE 28, 2010

Mathematical Lathe Work
JUNE 21, 2010

Modular Kirigami
JUNE 14, 2010

Mathematical Beading
JUNE 7, 2010

Nailbangers Nightmare
MAY 24, 2010

Recycling Soda Bottles into Icosahedra
MAY 17, 2010

Two Layer Geodesic Spheres
MAY 10, 2010

What to Make with Golf Balls?
MAY 3, 2010

Knitted Cellular Automaton Tea Cosy
APRIL 26, 2010

Whittling Links and Knots
APRIL 19, 2010

Magnet Constructions
APRIL 12, 2010

hexagonal-sticks-pencils

Hexagonal Stick Arrangements
APRIL 5, 2010

Paper Plate Geometry
MARCH 29, 2010

3D-Hilbert-Chaim

3D Hilbert Curve from Plumbing Supplies
MARCH 22, 2010

crackers-5-12-13

Math-Play With Your Food
MARCH 15, 2010

Deltahedra- Harriss

Mathematical Art in the Lava
MARCH 8, 2010

Balloon Polyhedra

Balloon Polyhedra
MARCH 1, 2010

Sierpinski-tetrahedron

Sierpinski Tetrahedron
FEBRUARY 22, 2010

hyperboloid-axial-view

Skewer Hyperboloid
FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Morton Bradley Sculpture
FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tetraxis Puzzle
JANUARY 25, 2010

Zometool-Sculpture-detail

Giant Zometool Sculpture
JANUARY 18, 2010

Giant Burr Puzzle
JANUARY 11, 2010

Fractal Polyhedral Clusters
JANUARY 4, 2010

Giant SOMA Puzzle
DECEMBER 28, 2009

Tie Your Bagel in a Knot!
DECEMBER 21, 2009

Playing Card Constructions
DECEMBER 14, 2009

MathematicallyCorrectBreakfast

Mathematically Correct Breakfast
DECEMBER 7, 2009