Sep
5
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised they made a movie out of it.
Speaking of 2-D vs 3-D, designing two dimensional worlds and getting kids to imagine explaining three dimensions to two dimensional people can make for an amazing curriculum. Here’s some ideas to get you started:
- 2d people can’t have digestive tracts like us, since a tube that runs through a 2d person cuts them in half. How can they take in and digest food?
- What about lungs, circulatory system, and other bodily systems?
- Can you build a 2d car? How do you get into it? How does the wheel turn?
- If you know any physics (like dissipation of gases, propagation of waves, etc.) what does the 2d version of these look like?
- How can you explain what a cube is to a 2d person?
- How would a 4d person explain what a 4d cube is like to us?
Any questions you can think of to add?
