Science Fenns / Numbers and shapes
Math Lab
A round hall under a glass roof, with shapes floating overhead and numbers glowing on the floor.
Grandpa Fenn’s room
What is in this room?
Tap the glowing dots. Find all 6 things.
Each one has something to learn.
0 of 6 foundPoppy’s game
What comes next?
Ten patterns. Find the rule. Then pick the next one.
Poppy’s quiz
Poppy has five questions for you
Grandpa Fenn’s story
The Honeycomb Floor
Pia held a piece of honeycomb up to the light. Every little room had six sides. All of them matched.
“Why not circles?” she asked.
Her grandpa drew some circles on a napkin. There were gaps between them. “Circles leave holes,” he said. “Squares and triangles fit together, but hexagons hold the most honey for the least wax.”
“How do the bees know?”
“Maybe they do not. Maybe the wax just settles into the shape that works best.”
Pia counted the sides again. Six. Six. Six. She decided it was the best floor plan she had ever seen.
Grandpa Fenn’s notebook
Say it like a scientist
Something that repeats in a way you can predict.
What you do to get from one number to the next.
A shape with six sides.
To cover a surface with shapes and no gaps.
The distance from the center of a circle to its edge.
Go further
Take a journey
A guided trip with Grandpa Fenn and Poppy. Stops to explore and questions to answer.
Mirrors and LightFix a mirror, crack number machines, hunt for patterns.
