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Circles, Geomagic, and Marble Calculators

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! We gave you a taste of some of Vi Hart’s math art last week with her balloon creations.  This week, we’re featuring some of Vi’s doodling in math class art – her...

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Pentomino Puzzles, Knight’s Tours, and Decimal Maxing

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! Have a pentomino tiling problem that’s got you stumped?  Then perhaps the Pentominos Puzzle Solver will be right up your alley! Recently I’ve been thinking a lot...

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Polyominoes, Rubix, and Emmy Noether

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! Check out the Pentomino Project, a website devoted to all things about polyominoes by students and teachers from the K. S. O. Glorieux Ronse school in Belgium. Their...

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Bridges, Meander Patterns, and Water Sports

This past week the Math Munch team got to attend the Bridges 2012. Bridges is a mathematical art conference, the largest one in the world. This year it was held at Towson University outside of...

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Newroz, a Math Factory, and Flexagons

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! You’ve probably seen Venn diagrams before. They’re a great way of picturing the relationships among different sets of objects. But I bet you’ve never seen a Venn...

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Mathpuzzle, Video Contests, and Snowflakes

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! One of my favorite math sites on the internet is mathpuzzle. It’s written and curated by recreational mathematician Ed Pegg Jr. About once a month, Ed makes a post...

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Polyominoes, Clock Calculator, and Nine Bells

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! The first thing I have to share with you comes with a story. One day several years ago, I discovered these cool little shapes made of five squares. Maybe you’ve seen...

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Tangent Spaces, Transplant Matches, and Golyhedra

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! You might remember our post on Tilman Zitzmann’s project called Geometry Daily. If you haven’t seen it before, go check it out now! It will help you to appreciate...

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Solomon Golomb, Rulers, and 52 Master Pieces

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch. I was saddened to learn this week of the passing of Solomon Golomb. Can you imagine the world without Tetris? What about the world without GPS or cell phones? Here at...

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