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Two twisty doughnut shapes solve a 150-year-old geometry puzzle

In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart ...
PBS

Put Shapes Together

Hunt for shapes and make familiar objects by putting together several different shapes. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to tell whether Dotson's 10-frames represent a number more than his focus ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

The pattern principle: For centuries, basic geometry shapes look of home décor

Circles, triangles and squares. One of the first things we learn as children are basic geometric shapes. And they stay with us throughout our lives. Maybe it’s that sense of familiarity that makes ...
The New York Times

‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s ...