I got inspired by the blogpost Art School | Geometric Design with Islamic Art where Deborah shows how to make a neat flower design with seven circles , using a compass, and then coloring it using 2, 3, or 4 colors (or however many of your own). I think it ties in neatly with mathematics, and lets students practice drawing circles with a compass. My girls loved the art/math project. Here are pictures they made: Here are step-by-step instructions for the flower design: 1. Draw a line and a circle so that the circle's center point is on the line. Then mark the points where this circle intersects the line. 2. Use those points as center points, and draw two more circles. The radius is the same all the time, so make sure you don't change it on your compass!We used 5 cm as the radius, and that made the whole design fit neatly on a regular letter size paper. 3. Now note the two points marked in the picture. They will be used as center points in the next
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Thanks for the cool Escher/Lego link. Just wanted to let you know and give everyone a heads-up that a link in one of the responses from others included in this piece - ("the brick testament.com") is something we would not want our little ones to look at - although it is Bible stories depicted in Legos, there are some very sexually explicit images which would definitely be inappropriate for children to see. The site even states that there are such stories in tbe Bible (which, of course, there are) and rates the depicted stories by " S, V " etc. etc.
We thought it would be cool for our little person to look at because it illustrated Bible stories with Legos - fortunately, we looked it over before our homeschooler had a chance to see and quickly changed our minds.
Thanks for your wonderful blog and your awesome math. newsletters and website. You help make our homeschool "math department"'s job so much easier and more fun!
You are appreciated!