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Talking math with your kids

geometry

geometry

A colorful poster, featuring many columns of tiled hexagons, hangs framed against a brick wall. There are diagonal stripes running messily through the collection, demonstrating a sort of imperfect order to things. Each hexagon is composed of some of the following: yellow right triangles, purple diamonds, red concave hexagons, blue kites, and dark gray darts.
Hexagon Challenge Poster

Hexagon Challenge Poster

Printed on high-quality paper and suitable for framing is this poster showing more than 300 solutions to the Hexagon Challenge. Each solution is the work of a child at Math On-A-Stick at the Minnesota State Fair. Entered in the JMM Mathematical Art Exhibition under...

| Nov 22, 2024 | 0

hat tiles spill out of a canvas bag, and have begun to tile themselves. There is a cup of black coffee nearby.
Hat Tiles

Hat Tiles

Before 2023, the question, “Is there a single tile that only tiles the plane non-periodically?” had no known answer. We now know the answer is “Yes!” and you can hold an example in your hands. These tiles are laser cut from solid American walnut, stained a lovely...

| Nov 22, 2024 | 0

An off-white baby bodysuit that reads "I *heart* hexagons" but where the heart is actually a red, concave hexagon standing on a vertex.
Hexagon onesie

Hexagon onesie

All babies are math babies. When your adorable math baby is wearing this hexagon onesie, the two of you will have something mathy to talk about—your shared love of hexagons! These onesies are silkscreened in two colors onto 100% cotton in a natural off-white...

| Nov 11, 2022 | 0

wooden tiling turtles spill out of a canvas bag that itself has an image of four tiled turtles on it
Wooden Tiling Turtles

Wooden Tiling Turtles

One beautiful set of 25 wooden tiling turtles. Laser cut from solid wood. These turtles encourage spatial reasoning, patterning, and counting. Mostly, they are just irresistible. These turtles were designed by Jos Leys and adapted for the laser cutter by Kevin Lee...

| Oct 18, 2015 | 0