Hexagons are nature's favorite shape!
In this video Eleanor teaches us about why hexagons are nature's favorite shape and shows a couple activities you can do with your kids or students to teach them about mathematical patterns in nature. They're everywhere!
The photos in the video were taken by:
Fern, lobstah 1977 https://www.flickr.com/photos/1816112...
Waves, ladybug-1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/5278861...
Raccoon
Honey comb and wasp nests,
Colleen https://www.flickr.com/photos/7733380...
Justus Thane https://www.flickr.com/photos/5501514...
Marian Bijlenga https://www.flickr.com/photos/2827427...
Michael Fontenot https://www.flickr.com/photos/7713801...
Tamsin Cooper https://www.flickr.com/photos/7697485...
Medal https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Dicklyon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Bubbles, Shebeko / Shutterstock http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/...
Box turtle, Bert Harris https://www.inaturalist.org/observati...
Pineapple, Trevor King https://www.flickr.com/photos/7567497...
Snake, TassieEye https://www.flickr.com/photos/8441866...
Basalt, Lucas Goehring https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~nonl...
Hexagon rockcod, Jean-Lou Justine https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Krill ommatidia, Uwe Kils https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...