Blog - Geometiles®

I was fortunate enough to visit downtown Los Angeles just in time to see this beautiful geometry installation by Hybycozo ...

Parents often ask me advice on how to expose their children to math concepts outside of what is being taught ...

This is a time of year when many of us are running around frantically shopping for gifts. Caught up in ...

This year's Nobel Prize in physics brought into the limelight the subject of topology, which studies the property of figures ...

Among the myriad math lessons offered to us by the Olympic Games, here's one involving just the rings. I recently ...

Besides producing delicious lemon bars, this recipe for Classic Lemon Bars from the Food Network is also a great opportunity to think ...

There's still nothing like experiencing math in the context of of simple cash purchases. I say "still" because of the ...

At a recent stop at the Citadel Outlets, I came across a beautifully tiled wall by the water fountain: What ...

When I saw Grace, Sophie, and Chloe in their mismatched pajamas, a question immediately popped up: if there are 3 ...

A trip to the ladies room of the Arclight Cinemas in the local mall revealed a somewhat unusually shaped sink ...

When my daughter was 6 years old, her uncle gave her this figurine, a couple of inches tall. She asked ...

Stuck at a traffic light, and, lo and behold, a DODECAHEDRON! A closer look reveals it’s standing on a platform ...

Title	Grade Level	Topics	CCSS
Tangrams	Grades 1+	Constructing 2-dimensional shapes	1.G.A.2
Shape Challenge, grade 2 and up	Grades 2+	Constructing polygons	2.G.A.1
Shape Challenge, grade 4 and up	Grades 4+	Constructing polygons; the 4th grade version reflects students’ familiarity with angles and classifying triangles.	3.G.A.1, 4.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2
Fractions	Grades 1 through 5	This sequence takes students from very basic understanding of fractions all the way through multiplying and dividing by fractions.	1.G.A.3, 2.G.A.2, 2.G.A.3, 3.NF.A.1, 3.NF.A.3, 4.NF.A.1, 4.NF.A.2, 4.NF.B.3, 4.NF.B.4, 5.NF
3D Solid Understanding	Grades 2+	Constructing and analyzing a rectangular and other prisms	1.G.A.2
Angle Mania	Grades 4+	Measuring angles, classifying triangles by angle types.	4.MD.C.5, 4.MD.C.7, 4.G.A.1, 4.G.A.2
Ratios plain and golden	Grades 6 through 8	Ratios and proportional relationships; Golden Ratio.	6.RP.A.1, 7.RP.A.2
Volume and Cavalieri's Principle	Grades 6 through 8	Volume and surface area.	HSG.GMD.A1, HSG.GMD.A2, HSG.GMD.A3
Triangles: similar, special, and right	Grades 8+	Similar polygons, special triangles, Pythagorean Theorem, irrational numbers.	8.NS, 8.G.A.4, 8.G.B.6, 8.G.B.7
Platonic and Archimedean Solids	Grades 1+	Platonic and Archimedean solids	Enrichment topic