Over a million students, teachers, and general math lovers from more than 100 countries have signed up to participate in Global Math Week and a math activity dubbed Exploding Dots. The inaugural ...

Those two dots “explode” and result in one dot landing in the box immediately to the left of the original dots, in this case, the second box from the right. (While this “exploding” of many ...

Margaret Wertheim: The exploding dots program I think is a really, really extraordinary project that James Tanton has done. What it's all about really is giving mathematics a visual and playful ...

Adventurous Exploding Dots begins at a point that younger children can understand and works its way up to college-level maths.