Math Photo: (Sine) Waves on the Beach
While on vacation, I passed some of my time looking for math on the beach, and I saw a sine wave creeping up the shore.
I thought I might be looking too hard for something mathematical, thereby seeing things that weren’t really there. Thankfully, Geogebra is well-equipped to justify my observations.
Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Geogebra helps enable my obsessions.
4 Comments
Maria Droujkova · April 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm
This is so beautiful!
Check out what we do in the Math Trek group: http://naturalmath.wikispaces.com/MathTrekResearchTriangle
Maybe we can collaborate somehow?
MrHonner · April 12, 2011 at 6:05 pm
The Math Treks look interesting–essentially a photo-stream-based game for capturing math images? Fun!
Maria Droujkova · April 13, 2011 at 8:35 am
We meet once a week with a local math club and go to different locations, with different topics explored there. What people tell me is kids start noticing math ideas everywhere.
MrHonner · April 13, 2011 at 9:48 am
That’s great. I feel like my project has had a similar effect on students–they were definitely seeing the math all around them! I’ll post some of the student work shortly.