Look up the word "symmetry" and you'll find these phrases: the correspondence in size, form and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line or point; balanced proportions; beauty ...
Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...
Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that's covered with tiny squares? It's the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a 'periodic tiling of space', with shapes covering an ...
In this session the children think of symmetrical shapes they have observed in objects - such as buildings - and then recreate these together in groups. 1: Warm up: Moving parts of the body in ...