Our church is having a Stop Hunger Now Food Packaging Event next Sunday, October 18, 2015. As a form of publicity for the event, they’ve asked us to decorate a hairnet and take a selfie.
That was the moment I realized: I have a Prime Factorization Sweater, a Prime Factorization Cardigan, a Prime Factorization Scarf, a Prime Factorization T-Shirt, and have made Prime Factorization Blankets. But I didn’t have a Prime Factorization Hairnet!
Well, I soon remedied that!
Okay, it’s not knitting. But I printed a chart I’d made of numbers color-coded with their prime factorization for the Prime Factorization T-shirt. Then I simply cut out the individual squares and glued them to the hairnet in a spiral pattern. So it goes from 1 to 100.
How it works? Each prime number gets a new color. Composite numbers are divided into sections with a section for each factor. Each section is colored according to that prime’s color. For example, 42 = 2 x 3 x 7, so the square for 42 is divided into three sections, colored blue for 2, red for 3, and green for 7.
This selfie not only shows the Prime Factorization Hairnet, it also gives a glimpse of infinity!
Oh, and I’m gathering all my Mathematical Knitting (and other mathematical creations) at Sonderknitting. Eventually, I’ll add mathematical explanations and patterns and activities and other good things.
I can safely say that mine is the most educational hairnet selfie posted yet!