# Homeschool Wednesday: More Math and Beauty

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2013-11-13

homeschooling, math, beauty, motivation

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In a previous edition of [Homeschool Wednesdays](http://continuations.com/tagged/homeschooling), I had written about different ways of [motivating the study of math](http://continuations.com/post/64219085727/homeschool-wednesday-math-motivation). In particular I suggested that showing how math can be beautiful may be one way to get some kids interested in it. My first foray into that was showing how [spirals occur in nature and can easily be modeled using math](http://www.slideshare.net/AlbertWenger/math-beauty). In my presentation this past Sunday I talked about waves. Here it is:

[**Math & Beauty 2: Waves**](https://www.slideshare.net/AlbertWenger/math-beauty2waves) from [**Albert Wenger**](http://www.slideshare.net/AlbertWenger)

When I presented it, the embed on Slide 10 actually played right in the presentation but PDF upload to Slideshare can’t do that. So here it is instead (taken from the [awesome Wikipedia entry on sine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine)):

Also you will definitely want to head over to the [gorgeous simulation of overlapping waves](http://toxicdump.org/stuff/FourierToy.swf) that I link to from the second to last slide. I promise that it is absolutely stunning.

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/homeschool-wednesday-more-math-and-beauty)*