Students (and Professor) make a Sierpinski Triangle with a sheet of paper and scissors.
The students in Tom LoFaro’s First Term Seminar, Chaos & Culturewere assigned the task of developing and presenting a classroom activity to teach a sixth grade student something about fractals. The students dubbed these lessons “fractivities.” Here are a few snapshots of the “fractivities” and us having fun doing them.
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- Students (and Professor) make a Sierpinski Triangle with a sheet of paper and scissors.
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- The end result of the Sierpinski triangle activity.
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- Student Najmo Ahmed working on her Sierpinski triangle. Sitting on her desk is the first iteration of a Menger Sponge, her groups “fractivity.”
