Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 29, 2008 - 16:44.
As I high-school math teacher I have spent a significant amount of time developing projects that incorporate art into my subject. I have found that most students enjoy this, and sometimes these projects are the only things they like doing all year. I must admit I had never thought to incorporate music or dance into my curriculum, but I have frequently made use of the applications of math to art. In my geometry class we have discussed and made mandalas, studied angle and segment bisections with origami, and created posters that focused on the relationship of polygons' angles and transformations to tessellations. In precalculus we have used string art to study conic sections and created graphs of trigonometric functions using spaghetti. I don't know if this is the most in-depth use of art in a math curriculum but it has been the best I have been able to come up with. With the diverse group of students my school services I have to find different methods of presenting my material.
Art in a High school Math Classroom
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 29, 2008 - 16:44.
As I high-school math teacher I have spent a significant amount of time developing projects that incorporate art into my subject. I have found that most students enjoy this, and sometimes these projects are the only things they like doing all year. I must admit I had never thought to incorporate music or dance into my curriculum, but I have frequently made use of the applications of math to art. In my geometry class we have discussed and made mandalas, studied angle and segment bisections with origami, and created posters that focused on the relationship of polygons' angles and transformations to tessellations. In precalculus we have used string art to study conic sections and created graphs of trigonometric functions using spaghetti. I don't know if this is the most in-depth use of art in a math curriculum but it has been the best I have been able to come up with. With the diverse group of students my school services I have to find different methods of presenting my material.