{"id":133,"date":"2019-02-26T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annie.mathematicalthinking.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:26:45","slug":"conway-tangles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annie.mathematicalthinking.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/26\/conway-tangles\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning More about Conway’s Rational Tangles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just led the Philly Area Math Teachers’ Circle<\/a> and did a version of John Conway’s Rational Tangles.\u00a0 I don’t claim to know everything about them by a long shot, but I put this together in case some of the participants want to explore more beyond what we covered in math circle.<\/p>\n

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My interest in this started when my husband traveled with me to the Northwest Math Conference in Whistler in 2018. He’s a retired high school math teacher, so I told him to go to Fawn’s session because she would make him do math.\u00a0 They did this activity in her session, so I decided I’d do it when I was leading our local math circle this February.<\/p>\n

Fawn Nguyen: Students Embroiled in Conway’s Rational Tangles<\/a>\u00a0[Blog post]. Fawn learned about this activity in a math circle.\u00a0 Here she reports out on trying it with her students.\u00a0 Be sure to watch the charming video at the end!<\/p>\n

Tom Davis: Conway’s Rational Tangles<\/a> [PDF]. Everyone seems to point to this or at least mention it, so I figured I better too.<\/p>\n

Tom Davis: Conway’s Rational Tangles<\/a> [Video]. Don’t want to read the PDF above? Head on over to YouTube and watch all 21 videos in the playlist of Tom leading this activity in a math circle.<\/p>\n

James Tanton: Understanding Rational Tangles<\/a>\u00a0[PDF].\u00a0 Want to dig into the math of this?\u00a0 So did James, and he wrote about it.<\/p>\n

Matthew Salomone: Math 596: Topics in Algebra and Knots<\/a> [Video]. Ever wondered what an non-Abelian group is? Check out these support materials for Matthew’s course. (Hint: non-Abelian comes up in the third video and you will totally understand it.)\u00a0 Oh, and it also explains, with visual aids, a bunch of the math about rational tangles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just led the Philly Area Math Teachers’ Circle and did a version of John Conway’s Rational Tangles.\u00a0 I don’t claim to know everything about them by a long shot, but I put this together in case some of the participants want to explore more beyond what we covered in math circle. \u00a0 My interest … <\/p>\n

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