Have you ever seen a million of anything? Before you is nearly one million digits of pi. So many digits that it probably has your (5 or 6 digit) birthday in it somewhere! If you can find it, take one of the highlighters and highlight it (or any other number you find special). Here’s how…Continue Reading Find Your Birthday in Pi!
Spot It! (also called Dobble) is a fun math game that has some surprisingly deep math underpinning it. Stop by to play the game, learn a bit about how the cards were made, and then make your own set of cards! Videos: A video on how to play Spot It!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hokzb-fazGM Additional Resources: Spot It!’s…Continue Reading Spot It!
The Fibonacci sequence can be seen throughout nature and the universe at varying angles. Fibonacci spirals are common natural occurrences that model this sequence. Videos: Video from NOVA about pi and the Fibonacci sequence: https://myarkansaspbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvmm-math-pifibonacci/pi-the-fibonacci-sequence/ Khan Academy video about calculations with the Fibonacci sequence: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ncert-class-11/xea4762213f311c5e:sequences-and-series-ncert-new/xea4762213f311c5e:series/v/worked-example-fibonacci-sequence Additional Resources: Wikipedia article about the Fibonacci spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral…Continue Reading Fibonacci and the Golden Spiral
Two diagrams represent the same knot if one can be transformed into the other through Reidemeister moves, or if you can make a looped string look like each of them. Can you match physical knots to their diagrams? Can you tell which pairs of diagrams represent the same knot? Video: A video from Numberphile about…Continue Reading Knot Theory
Stop by this booth to play some awesome math games! Proof: https://www.proofmathgame.com/ Prime Climb: https://mathforlove.com/games/prime-climb/ Pass the Pigs: https://winning-moves.com/product/PassThePigs.asp Ricochet Robots: https://robotsevolved.com/#…Continue Reading Math Games
This booth is sponsored by the Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics at the University of Arkansas. If you shoot a pool ball, which pocket will it end up in? The answer to this question can be found by “unfolding the table”! What happens if we change the table shape? A table…Continue Reading AMDD x AWM: Playing Billiards with Maryam Mirzakhani
There are loads of interesting puzzles that you can make using a chessboard and chess pieces. Come try one! Can you solve the knight’s quest? Additional Resources: A Puzzling StackExchange post about defending every square on a chess board: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/22/how-many-chess-pieces-does-it-take-to-cover-all-spaces-on-a-chessboard A Wikipedia article about one of the most classic chess questions; “can a knight reach…Continue Reading Chess Puzzles
How tall is that tree over there? You don’t need a ladder, you need trigonometry! Come learn the fast way to measure tall things using only your body! Videos: A video from TabletClass Math which shows how to use trigonometry to measure height: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTaTmkpqmY Additional Resources: A website which has Euclid’s Elements, arguably the most…Continue Reading Trees and Triangles
Become your own M.C. Escher in the 21st century! Learn how to sketch, design, and 3-D print your own Escher-like tessellations. Additional Resources: A link to a presentation about tessellation, i.e. covering the plane in repeated shapes: https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/2020/05/Tessellation%20-%20M%20C%20Escher.pdf A Wikipedia article to a book The Symmetries of Things written by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel,…Continue Reading Escher Art with 3D-Printing
Come play with the RIOT robots! https://riotrobotics.org/ …Continue Reading RIOT Robotics