Sunday, December 14, 2014

Infinity

An acquaintance recommended a site full of "math in daily life" videos.  Lately, math around here has become a little dull.  SpiderGirl is practising multiplication tables; BatBoy hasn't had anything new for awhile; so the inspiration was welcome.





"The Infinite Life of Pi" caught BatBoy's imagination.





He calls these his "infinite drawings."  He made one that looked just like a visual representation of Fibonacci's sequence too.  (It was a series of adjacent squares.)  From there, we went on to explore ways infinity shows up.  His drawings reminded me of fractals, so I found some videos to show him.





And of course, the Ted-Ed had a video on fractals too.



Finally, we looked at what happens when we allow long division to go into decimals instead writing a remainder or changing to a mixed fraction.