Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Activities for a rainy afternoon

Constructing a Möbius Strip from Lego:


From Mathematical Lego Sculptures.

4 comments:

mskp said...

i always wondered what a mobius strip was! the link was a little confusing [in content] for a non-maths/science-y kid but i dutifully made one out of paper and cut it in half to see. it was like watching the curiosity show again - ta!

_nothing_ said...

I love the paper Möbius Strip! That always blew my mind as a kid ... trace a line on the strip and the lines will meet up!

elaine said...

I did this on a Sunday Afternoon about 3 weeks ago! (paper and tracing moebius strips not lego moebius strips)

(how do you do umlauts in comments?)

A 3-d shape with 2 surfaces, it's like the curiousity show in your own home.

_nothing_ said...

>> how do you do umlauts in comments?

If you're on windows, go Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Character Map. Then find the character(s) you want and copy them.

Or just find someone who did it already and cut-n-paste what they wrote.

Or you can use HTML entity:
ö

For more information on the extended Unicode character set see:
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/latin_1_supplement.html