Math in Nature

I love math! I started working with some advanced math students last year and we incorporated some Math in Nature as part of our explorations.  Below are some links we found helpful.

General Resources

Maths Outdoors – http://creativestarlearning.co.uk/c/maths-outdoors/

Hexaflexagon –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k

Honeycomb Conjecture

Honeybees Love Hexagons – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzlsjAqADA

Hexagon Tiling – http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HexagonTiling.html

Tessellation – http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tessellation.html

Honeycomb Conjecture – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnbfcWHLYc

The Golden Ratio

Golden Ratio – http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html

Golden Rectangles All Around Activity – http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/around.html

Fibonacci Numbers

Fibonacci Number – http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html

Doodling in Math – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0 Notes and References: https://vimeo.com/147799854

The magic of Fibonacci numbers –https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_the_magic_of_fibonacci_numbers#t-363498

Fractals

General Information and teaching ideas – http://creativestarlearning.co.uk/maths-outdoors/outdoor-maths-fractals-in-nature/

Fractal Foundation – http://fractalfoundation.org/

Nico’s Fractal Machine- Fractal Creator where you can stop and save an image of the fractal you made

https://sciencevsmagic.net/fractal/#0223,0090,1,1,1,0,1

African Fractals – http://www.csdt.rpi.edu/african/African_Fractals/applications4.html

Books

By Nature’s Design https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Design-Exploratorium-Book/dp/0811803295

The Magic of Mathematics

https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mathematics-Discovering-Spell/dp/0933174993/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490188530&sr=1-1&keywords=the+magic+of+mathematics

Of Interest

How to Draw with Math https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-draw-with-math/