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  • Kicking a Soccer Ball

    Do you know the shapes that you kick? The surface of a soccer ball is made up of regular pentagons and regular hexagons. Do you know why?

    立体・多面体/サッカーボールと正二十面体、ほか

  • Sliding with Cycloids

    Do you know that there are more than one way of how you can design slides? Other than a straight line, you can slide down with curves... With this model of four slides, think, predict and compete about which design of the slide is the fastest and the most fun of them all!

    いろいろな曲線/サイクロイド滑り台、ほか

  • Cutting through A Conic Section

    We are surrounded by circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas. Do you know how they’re made? They are made by slicing a cone in different ways! Can you figure out how it’s sliced and how it got its names?

    円錐曲線/円錐曲線説明器、ほか

  • Manholes and Centers!

    Why are manhole covers round? Can’t we have it another way? Find out why they are round and discover much more! You might even be able to create your own manhole cover shape!

    平面図形、定幅図形/マンホール、ほか

  • Going Crazy with Cradle Pinball!

    Imagine a hundred of balls released at one starting point. Which way will they go, left or right? Be amazed as to how these metal balls travel through the metal pins to land in their appropriate columns. Will they be together or will they choose to move away from each other? Discover why!

    確率・統計・順列・組合せ/二項分布パチンコ、ほか

  • He loves me… He loves me not… Flower Petal Game

    This is a two-player game. Take turns picking one or two adjacent petals off the flower, and the person who picks the last petal wins! Now, see if you can figure out the winning strategy...

    ゲーム・パズル/花びら取りゲーム、ほか

  • Combining a Family of Pentadron Into One

    Have you heard of parallelepipeds, skewed hexagonal prisms, truncated octahedra, rhombic dodecahedra and elongated rhombic dodecahedra? They are the five families of parallelohedra. Discover their characteristics and other more figures you can build using these pentadrons!

    新しい定理、離散数学/ペンタドロン、ほか

  • Reversible Solids: How a Pig Turns into a Ham

    You want a ham? Go and rotate that pig. You want your pig back? Go and rotate that ham. Be mesmerized as to how a truncated octahedron, the pig, turns into a ham ... oops, a rectangular prism through the concept of reversible solids.

    美術、音楽/変身立体、ほか

  • Spiral Xylophone

    Come and listen as a single rolling ball plays you a charming music as it rolls down a spiral xylophone. The steps each have different length, producing different frequencies; hence sounding a beautiful melody.

    自然の中の数理/らせん木琴、ほか

  • Can You Draw the Sum of an Infinite Ratio?

    How can an infinite number of parts be shown in a figure? It sounds crazy impossible but the sum of an infinite ratio like, (1/4)+(1/4)2+(1/4)3 + … , may be visually shown. Come and see it with your very eyes! By the way, the sum up there is 1/3!

    数と式、数列/無限等比数列の和、ほか

  • Injecting Areas: Integration Doctor

    Be like a doctor and a mathematician while you explore this device which illustrates the concept of integration from area - by approximating the area between a curve and an axis.

    面積、体積/区分求積法、ほか

  • Pythagoreans Theorem: From Triangles to Elephants

    Maybe you’ve seen this triangle written on a piece of paper. Here, you can explore the relationship of figures and the ever-famous
    Pythagorean Theorem in various forms and presentations.

    三平方の定理/三平方スライド、ほか

  • Greatest Common Factor (G.C.F.) and Least Common Multiple (L.C.M.)

    Tired of computing G.C.F. and L.C.M. in your head? Play with this device which gives you the G.C.F. and L.C.M. of two natural numbers with just one button! (This is the example shown below,
    90=2x3x3x5 and 24=2x2x2x3)

    最小公倍数・最大公約数算出器

  • How Much Do You Have in a Watermelon?

    Do you know how much you are going to eat if you finish a whole watermelon? Cut through this watermelon and see how cones make up the whole volume of a sphere! Yum!

    スイカの体積