Math Renaissance

04/03/2025

If you've been to the math museum in NYC (MoMath), you've seen the exhibit on the aperiodic monotile, aka The Hat Tile. The photo here is from a hands-on activity at the conference G4G15, where participants tiled the plane with aperiodic monotiles. In the upcoming Math Circle course "The Hat Tile," participants will experiment with tesselations/tilings and attempt to reproduce a section of the tiling in the photo. And we'll discuss some math history using photos from the MoMath exhibit as a primary source. The course meets on Tuesdays at 3:35pm in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Scholarships are available. Registration info are course details are here: https://mathrenaissance.com/the-hat-tile/

10/14/2021

Math Circle Blog Post: Asking Not Presenting

I don’t want to “present” things; I want to “ask” things. I want to just use words without defining them. To just expect that if students don’t understand, they will […]

10/11/2021

Blog Post: Axioms 2

Going into the second week of our Axioms of Mathematics courses, my plan with the School House Lane group is to linger, to savor the beauty of the math in […]

08/09/2021

Announcing the last call to have a say in Math Circle scheduling for fall and early winter. If you'd like to give me info on your schedule preferences, fill out the interest form on the Math Renaissance website. I'll take all feedback received by Tuesday night and hope to announce definite schedules by this coming weekend (8/14). Thank you!

07/08/2021

We have launched our new website! Take a look for info about us, our philosophy, our courses, and our publications.
https://mathrenaissance.com/

01/28/2020

We had a wonderful time talking about Math Renaissance with Sven Haiges on the KidsLab Podcast! Check out the link below to listen:

In this episode we’re talking to Rodi and Rachel Steinig – a mother and her daughter from Philadelphia in the USA. Together they have written the book Math Renaissance which originally got su…

04/17/2019

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Math Renaissance is a book for teachers and parents of children ages five and up. The co-authors Rodi and Rachel Steinig share their insights as mother and daughter, co-teachers, and co-learners. In her chapters, Rodi tells stories about her math circle and exactly what happens there. Rachel...

08/10/2018

Math Renaissance is now for sale on the Natural Math Website as well as on Amazon! If you're a fan of our writing, we would really appreciate it if you would review our book and help spread the message of math circles!

Math Renaissance is a book for teachers and parents of children ages five and up. The co-authors Rodi and Rachel Steinig share their insights as mother and daughter, co-teachers, and co-learners. In her chapters, Rodi tells stories about her math circle and exactly what happens there. Rachel disc...