M.I.T. ------ FIRST MEETING: How to make tetrahedra and cubes with their fingers The grab-a-hand party game Making trefoils and Borromean rings (3 people) Pictures of knots; Reidemeister moves Knots with 1, 2, and 3 crossings (turning circles and figure 8's inside out) Manipulating trefoils The belt-trick Inverting the trefoil SECOND MEETING: The coloring-argument for the non-triviality of the trefoil Torus-knots with doughnuts and string Inverting the trefoil (more deliberately); adding half-hoops, music Trick with Borromean rings (linking two unlinks the third) Making a figure-eight knot Handing out article from The American Scientist U.W. ---- Making trefoils and Borromean rings (3 people) Pictures of knots; Reidemeister moves Knots with 1, 2, and 3 crossings (turning circles and figure 8's inside out) Manipulating trefoils Taking the figure eight to its mirror image Sliding a trefoil along itself Undoing a double-loop Inverting the trefoil Making a figure-eight knot