Galton Board - Math In Motion

Four Pines Publishing is making new Galton Boards now and there will be an equal distance between the std dev lines. It will also have a smaller single brass bead so it will not occasionally get lodged in bin 12. New boards should be available around early March. The Galton Board is math in motion, demonstrating centuries-old mathematical concepts in an innovative desktop device.  It also has a superimposed Pascal’s Triangle, which is a triangle of numbers that follows the rule of adding the two numbers above to get the number below. The number at each peg represents the number of different paths a bead could travel from the top peg to that peg. The Fibonacci numbers can also be found as the sums of specific diagonals in the triangle. When rotated on its axis, the 3,000 beads cascade through rows of symmetrically placed pegs in the desktop-sized Galton Board. When the device is level, each bead bounces off the pegs with equal probability of moving to the left or right. As the beads se