GUIDED TOURS AND EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES
FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Created by "Coopculture" in partnership with "Le Nuvole"

WALKING THE BRIDGES OF ROME
Graph theory - Euler - Colors for maps - Tower of Hanoi
Is it possible to take a walk that starts from Palazzo delle Esposizioni, reaches once each of the four bridges of the city center of Rome and then goes back to the starting point without having crossed more bridges? Also, can you do it arriving at St. Peter instead of returning to the starting point? What changes if you add the walkway across the island to Trastevere? On Euler's footsteps, following his reasoning...

TESSELLATION AND MOSAICS
Soap bubbles - Minimal surfaces - Fractals
What do a beehive, the opus reticulatum and a mosaic have in common? It seems impossible to find a link between soap bubbles, a normal brick wall and an ancient artwork. Instead, considering their symmetry, the patterns that govern all these things are often the same.
An amazing fact is that there actually are very few possible patterns that expand infinitely in more than one direction.

ARE YOU A SQUARE PERSON?
anthropometry
Your height, your open arms and the ratio between them, measuring the whole human body or its single components. This can be done for statistical and anthropological purposes, for example to retrace a population's history, or for clinical applications, ergonomics, industrial design and fashion.
A historical-artistic-mathematical path that starts with Phidias, passes by Da Vinci, reaches Le Corbusier ... and goes on.

FIBONACCI'S WORLD OF NUMBERS
Golden numbers
The trends of the stock market, the biological growth of certain species, the spacing between the leaves along a stem and the arrangement of petals and seeds in some types of flowers, such as the sunflower, often show patterns related to the Fibonacci sequence.
The nautilus, a large mollusk that has the section of the shell as a perfect logarithmic spiral, shows us how the golden ratio is the mathematical expression of the beauty and elegance of nature.

IS IT A CODE? NO, IT'S AN ENIGMA!
Encrypting: from the Polybius square to Caesar's cipher, from Alan Turing to our days and beyond
The applications of cryptography are widespread in IT and in all situations where data confidentiality is required: wireless communication, internet, financial transactions... but decoding them is not impossible!


GUIDED TOURS
from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 7pm
tour € 80,00 per group
admission € 4.00 per student

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES
from Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 7pm
guided tour + activity € 130.00 per group
admission € 4.00 per student

Special offer for schools
For secondary schools who book and participate within the first month of the exhibition or participate to two experimental activities and guided tours at Palazzo delle Esposizioni and/or at the : special rate of € 70.00 per group for the guided tour and € 120.00 for the experiments.

Free reservation required tel. 848 082 408
info www.coopculture.it

MATH TALKS
Going for a walk, making a mosaic, playing chess, planning holidays according to the weather forecast, cooking a meal... this is all possible thanks to the unaware use of numbers. Gatherings to share non-conventional experiences in which mathematics are applied to different and only apparently distant disciplines, from philosophy to cuisine, from music to botany.

Adults
Activities upon schedule
Program and info: www.coopculture.it  tel. 06 39967500