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 ...

Let’s sing and repeat patterns together! "Let’s sing and repeat patterns together! Learning Goal: Make patterns with repeating sounds Vocabulary: Patterns, beats, sounds, repeat, next Pause and Wonder ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...