Paula Beardell Krieg
@paulakrieg.bsky.social
Happy to share art and math play
I appears That I might be living in my own marvelous word problem. This year my raspberry patch is magnificent, but it’s been too early for berries. I’d get astray one here and there, but three days ago I found three ripe ones. Yesterday there were 9. Today, almost 27!
Forgive me for pointing you to a post that I wrote 6 years ago, but reading my impressions of Ben Orlin‘s new book gave me such pleasure today that I wanted to share. bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/m...
My First Read of the New Decade
The first book I’m reading this decade is a beautiful object. I am so taken by the design of this book that I am asking your forgiveness, as I will barely be referencing the contents of the b…
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Making shadow boxes....there is much geometry when building things from paper. bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/p... #mathart #solidgeometry #shadowbox #geometry
Paper Shadow Box Frame
Just to be clear, I don’t need to fall in love with paper all over again. It doesn’t serve me when I can’t fall asleep because I am so excited by stumbling upon something else tha…
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About a month ago MoMath let me guide over 100 of their museum goers in making a tetrahedron in a cube in a rhombic dodecahedron, inspired by a drawing in Kepler's notebook. Here's the video playlist of the project, which points towards all the nets that we used. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
When you start looking for simple and enjoyable end of the year activities, remember that it’s always satisfying to make a box. Here’s a nice one. youtu.be/FgI5l6EBzuM?...
Cube Box to Make, with wings instead of tabs, cut, score and glue
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Heading out to NYC for an event for MoMath in their brand new space! I'll be guiding people though some fun geometry at @momath.bsky.social 's Family Friday event. bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/a...
A 3D Geometry Project for MoMath
Two of the three layers of boxes I’m heading to NYC today to work with families and whoever else that shows up to make a project for the Museum of Mathematics monthly free Family Friday event…
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It's always a thrill to see that @denisegaskins.com has visited my blog. I love that Denise links me up with my friends in her carnival. denisegaskins.com/2026/03/25/p...
Playful Math 184: Carnival of Living Math
Welcome to the 184th edition of the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival — a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teachi…
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Last year, dashing out to a family gathering, I managed to put up a post about making this sweet little origami basket. Looking it over again, I like how, besides folding, it's also about how to work with paper. Such fun to make, to have and to give away. bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/o...
Can’t resist aharing today’s wordle Wordle 1,714 2/6* ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Am teaching a class right now in which we construct cubes then alter them... Reminds me of the math concept of parents functions which are altered. We then combine the truncated and pierced cubes in fun ways. #mathart #paperengineering
Happy Valentines Day. Made this in 2018, and still love it. Loving Triangles.
Artist @hakoyamaho post models and their nets on Instagram. This one of golden ratio proportioned prisms caught my eye. Makes a cool pedestal for my Minnesota themed octahedron and for a small wooden sculpture by my husband.
I've been hearing from blog readers, in comments and DMs, who have lived in Minnesota, but who are not there now, It's touching how much they appreciate having something to make that honors their connection to the state.
Paula Beardell Krieg@paulakrieg.bsky.social · 8mo agoHeartbroken over the events of the past few days. For my Minnesota friends, here is an Octahedron decorated with the color of your flag and your North Star motif. PDF on my blog post bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s...
Heartbroken over the events of the past few days. For my Minnesota friends, here is an Octahedron decorated with the color of your flag and your North Star motif. PDF on my blog post bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s...
If the events of the day feel unbearable, I offer a bit of geometry to help you feel grounded. Here's a PDF to make some octagons. drive.google.com/file/d/1bOJ5... Print on card weight paper if you can, glue neighboring tabs together, add string before closing up. #mathart #octahedron #Healing
What bothers me about Archimedean Solids is that I can't visualize the part that was removed from the Platonic parent shape. Here's a solution for the cuboctahedron: build the Platonic Solid parent cube around it and notice the shape of the negative space+
I super like making models that illustrate simple concepts that are hard to grasp with words or in pictures, but which are easily grasped when seen in 3D. I've been pondering how to make a good model that show dual polyhedra, starting with the cube and octahedron. finally got it.
Using pattern blocks motifs on larger pattern block shapes, in different arrangements. #patternblocks #symmetry #paperconstructions #triangles +
Here's a hexagonal antiprism joined with a hexagon prism. Worked this out in anticipation of an upcoming zoom class at Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild - Book Arts: Realm of Solids 2026WKSP-01-13 share.google/709E8iib8Zbb... Turns out it's kind of perfect for housing scrolls.
Thank you @johngolden.bsky.social Your reach is far greater than mine! I will Zoom teaching an introduction to solids class for the Canadian BookBinders and Book Artists Guild in January www.cbbag.ca/event-6403035
John Golden@johngolden.bsky.social · 9mo ago#mathart and 3D rhombus prisms from @paulakrieg.bsky.social bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...
Been having a good old time constructing pattern block shapes and then adding designs to the faces. Here's a peak at me pushing them around to see what happens: youtu.be/ss_w0CiQuCY #symmetry #patternblocks #geometry #rhombicPrism #rhombus #bluepatternblock #mathart
Thinking about my Rhombus-playmate Malke Rosenfeld this holiday season. We put our heads together on many projects. Loved how she played with rhombi. Miss having her energy in the world. Here's a writing up from 2015, includes links to some of her pages. bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/p...
Piecing Together a Project, Over Land and Sea
This story begins in a teachers’ lunchroom, a couple of years ago, in Upstate NY. I was sitting with some teachers when another member of the staff started talking to a first grade teacher, M…
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Playing around with irregular pentagons that I described in my previous post, doing reflections. #mathart
I've been making paper constructions of pattern blocks, then decided to add some extra ones to the traditional set. I'm particularly proud of this irregular pentagon. Even though I worked this out according to my own agenda, it's characteristics are so cool that I have no doubt that it's a shape +
