
Math Creativity at Mass Creativity
This past Saturday, June 14, was the culmination of the weeks long Mass Creativity, a community wide arts program organized ...

Pi-lights and other (ner)delights
After coming back from a tour of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Hall of Mathematics and Physics at Caltech recently, ...

Quilting Blocks and Geometiles: Old Meets New
March is National Quilting Month, and I took this opportunity to delve into some of the history and math associated ...

Pi(e) Days
Over the past decade or so, Pi day, March 14 (3/14) had blossomed into a widespread celebration of pies and ...

Seattle Themed Volume Problem
During the recent Joint Mathematics Meetings, which took place in Seattle, exhibitors were encouraged to contribute to the festive atmosphere ...

A Special Year
As I write this, we are about to welcome year 2025. What is special about the number 2025? It is ...

Kepler at Caltech
I have written about Johannes' Kepler's studies of Platonic and Archimedean solids several times on this blog. In those write-ups, ...

Il Mazzocchio
Ever since I built a Tetra Pak® model of the Campanus Sphere, I've been dreaming about building one of the ...

Transitioning from Summer to Fall with Icebreakers
I was recently chatting with an experienced teacher who pointed out that playing with Geometiles would be an excellent way ...

American Institute of Mathematics 30th Birthday Celebration Fair
The American Institute of Mathematics sure knows how to throw a party! Yesterday's birthday celebration was a blast for all ...

The Caltech Snub Cube
It is not that common to encounter Archimedean solids "in the wild", especially the two chiral ones (meaning having a ...

Atlanta Science Festival 2024
It has been several days since I came back from the incredible Atlanta Science Festival, and I am still savoring ...