Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 –2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labelled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena.
ITERATION
How can we sum to infinity??
Key questions
What is iteration?
How can we create a fractal?
Can we use ICT effectively?
What are matrices?
9 lessons
Literacy
stories that set a frame or background
stories that accompany or intertwine
stories that introduce
stories that explain
stories that ask a question
stories that entertain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Develop...
sierpinski triangle - 1, 2
fractal investigation - 1, 2
strange attractors - 1, 2, 3
space filling curves - 1, 2
koch snowflake - 1, 2
fractal cuts - 1, 2
the dragon curve - 1, 2
Extend...
game of life - 1, 2, 3
shifting - 4
flipping - 4
turning - 4
recap - 4
a full turn - 1, 4
sum to infinity - 1