These are just a few of the many mathematical topics that can be explored by observing and designing quilts.
Quilts have an aesthetic immediacy that draws in the viewer.
They are fun and pleasing to look at. Quilts have the further advantage of being a topic that girls can relate to at least as well as boys, as well as being based in many different cultural traditions. This workshop will focus on ways that quilts can be used to begin investigations of mathematical topics such as symmetry, tiling, ratio and proportion, and iteration. Participants will be given a booklet that will contain the quilt-based math investigations that were done in the workshop and many more that we will not have time to pursue.