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Pasta Shapes

October 12, 2017

Six invented math-shaped pastas: toruses, polygons, cubes, a coordinate-plane lasagna, parabolas, and a Sierpiński-triangle fractal.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-10-12-pasta-shapes/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Pasta shapes] Torusetti (tori) · Polygonguini (polygons) · Cubelli (cubes) · Cartesiagna (a lasagna sheet with coordinate axes) · Paraboli (parabolas) · Fractaloni (a Sierpiński triangle)

[Caption] "Mathematicians make the best pasta."

Topics
Geometry › 3D ShapesGeometry › PolygonsGeometry › TopologyGeometry › Coordinate PlaneGeometry › FractalsAlgebra › Quadratics
Level
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh School
Themes
FoodPunsVisual Explanations