Introduce your class to the concept of finite-state automata with an activity that asks individuals to try to map their way to Treasure Island by taking different routes though an island chain. Each island has two ship sailing...

In this cellular automata worksheet, students practice expressing binary numbers in decimal form and use Conway's Rules of Life to see how patterns evolve over time. This worksheet has 1 fill in the blank and 3 problems to solve.

Students explore forestry. They discuss creating fire breaks to control forest fires. Students create models to determine the best way to manage forest fires. They discuss current techniques of forest management.

Young scholars discuss the Chaos Theory and how it came into existence.They observe order and compare it to the randomness of chaos. The lesson features the playing of a game to reinforce concepts.

This student activity is based around a fictitious pirate story which leads to the unlikely topic of reasoning about patterns in sequences of characters. Experiencing this concretely will help lay the foundation for understanding finite...

"Quantum-dot Cellular Automata" (QCAs) can serve as memory cells and wires. This lab describes how QCAs can be made into MAJORITY, OR, AND, and INVERTER logic gates.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to percolation theory and the possibilities of cellular automata. Framed in the context of a playground which disappears into a sinkhole, students model a...

A thorough list of topics in the study of Discrete Mathematics. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Point Lattices are three of the many areas given in-depth explanations here. Many of the links contain discussions of the topics that both...

A complete course on theoretical Computer Science presented at the college undergraduate level. The course attempts to describe Computer Science beyond the computer, focusing on mathematical tools, complex systems and classic problems,...

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of algorithms. Students are at first given a string of cells (one-dimensional), and then told to iterate the cells according to a couple basic...

These wooden, puppet-like machines operate on simple engineering: a turn crank. Watch them in action and see them in a full 360 degree view.

The simple mechanics of these moving wooden puppets are old-fashioned, yet still appealing to today's audience.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.

If you're willing to do some serious searching, this is the jackpot site for kinetic art! There are links here for hundreds of artists and museums dedicated to moving art sculptures.