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String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...
The New Yorker

How a Remedial Math Tool Ended Up at the Whitney

In 1979, the artist James Inoli Murphy tried out the idea of using string figures—those cat’s-cradle games of loops and knots—to teach math to recalcitrant students. “It is a pleasure, it is an active ...
insider.si.edu

String figures and how to make them : a study of cat's cradle in many lands / by Caroline Furness Jayne ; with an ethnological introduction by Alfred C. Haddon

"An unabridged republication of the work first published ... in 1906 under the former title: String figures." siris_sil_908494 ...
Nature

Artists in String: String Figures, their Regional Distribution and Social Significance

MRS. RISHBETH has long been known as a zealous collector and student of the string games known popularly as ‘cat's cradle’. In this volume she justifies a study which, to the Philistine, may seem ...
The Norman Transcript

Local students hear tales of a string

Oklahoma storyteller David Titus tells his story in a most unusual way. He told stories to Ida Freeman Elementary students while he illustrated them with string figures Tuesday. Titus created the ...