Thinkery21: Strength in Numbers

At Thinkery, math is not a four letter word. From fractions in music to fractals in nature, come playfully explore how math shapes the world around us. Through games, puzzles and art, you’ll learn to derive the equation: You + Thinkery21 = Love.

Math Makes Art Great – Join Dr. Alan Pizer for an historical overview of how artists have used math to make perspective more believable and human proportions more ideal than real.

Get into the Groove – Join Go Dance and explore how hearing the numbered counts in music can enhance your experience and ability to look and feel good on the dance floor.

Trihexaflexawhat? – Learn about the discovery of the trihexaflexagon and learn to make your own charming mathematical model.

Math in the Bath – Create amazing soap bubble surfaces, and explore their underlying geometry, with Southwestern University’s John Ross.

Math Happens – Join MathHappens.org in a celebration of the paradoxical and a chance to win a birthday gift. Explore unexpected coincidences, physical and numerical paradoxes, strange election results and a proof that 64=65.

Pythagorean Puzzles – Play around with puzzle pieces to prove  a2 +b2 =c2 with Dr. Pedro Morales (UT Mathematics) and Dr. Jennifer Austin (MTCA).

Strong Shapes – Using dowels, rubber bands and some special reasoning, build structures big enough to get inside.

Math…in Space! – Join Drs. Jeffrey Silverman and Rachael Livermore of Astronomy on Tap ATX to learn about light years, the probability that we are not alone and more astronomical math.

Atomic Numbers – Things get elemental with UT’s Council of Graduate Chemists who will explain how numbers gave the periodic table its shape.

Mobius Math – Make your own Mobius strip and explore the properties of a surface with only one side.