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  2. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    For example, one can teach the method of completing the square by using algebra tiles. Cuisenaire rods can be used to teach fractions, and pattern blocks can be used to teach geometry. Using mathematical manipulatives helps students gain a conceptual understanding that might not be seen immediately in written mathematical formulas. [15]

  3. Portal:Gardening - Wikipedia

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    Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space. Gardens fulfill a wide assortment of purposes, notably the production of aesthetically pleasing areas, medicines, cosmetics, dyes, foods, poisons, wildlife habitats, and saleable goods (see market gardening).

  4. Aesthetics of nature - Wikipedia

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    Nature is a living system which includes animals, plants, and Eco-systems. In contrast, an art object has no regeneration, evolutionary history, or metabolism. [ 6 ] An individual may be in the forest and perceive it as beautiful because of the plethora of colors such as red, green, and yellow.

  5. The (Real) Problem With Fake Plants - AOL

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    With real nature, we can receive answers that render the most alien-looking and silent beings understandable, from plants to sea urchins and sponges—much like they did for Aristotle, who was ...

  6. Master Gardener: Using native plants can support wildlife - AOL

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    One example of a non-native plant that many people choose for the corners of their flower beds is the butterfly bush, Buddleja davidii. This beautiful flowering shrub is a food source of nectar ...

  7. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    For example, the leaves of ferns and umbellifers (Apiaceae) are only self-similar (pinnate) to 2, 3 or 4 levels. Fern-like growth patterns occur in plants and in animals including bryozoa, corals, hydrozoa like the air fern, Sertularia argentea, and in non-living things, notably electrical discharges.

  8. Gardening - Wikipedia

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    Plant domestication is seen as the birth of agriculture. However, it is arguably proceeded by a very long history of gardening wild plants. While the 12,000 year-old date is the commonly accepted timeline describing plant domestication, there is now evidence from the Ohalo II hunter-gatherer site showing earlier signs of disturbing the soil and cultivation of pre-domesticated crop species. [8]

  9. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    A new art form struggling for acceptance is digital art, a by-product of computer programming that raises new questions about what truly constitutes art.Although paralleling many of the aesthetics in traditional media, digital art can additionally draw upon the aesthetic qualities of cross-media tactile relationships; interactivity; autonomous generativity; complexity and interdependence of ...