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ERIC Number: ED672786
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 6
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Using Art and Open Pedagogy in Mathematics Education
Larry Musolino
International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, Paper presented at the International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (ICEMST) (Antalya, Turkey, Apr 27-30, 2024)
A new course development is intended for students to investigate the intersection of mathematics with seemingly disparate areas of art, music, architecture, and nature. The course is designed to allow students to explore the hidden connections between the aesthetic pleasures of art, music and nature and that of mathematical foundations and how the beauty of art, music and nature can be equated to the corresponding beauty of mathematics. Both art and mathematics require the ability to generate and recognize patterns and make use of spatial reasoning skills and this forms a natural connection between these seemingly distinct fields. Students often have negative attitudes towards learning mathematics and the word "mathematics" often has negative connotations for many students. To counteract these negative perceptions, the newly developed course provides hands-on experiments for students to investigate mathematical and artistic constructs -- students generate their own mathematical expressions through exploring art, music, and other genres by combining mathematical foundations with basic computing techniques. The design of the course emphasizes a synthesis of concepts from across art, music, architecture, nature, mathematics and computing to motivate students to explore linkages and connections between these subject areas from a new and innovative perspective. In addition, students create new knowledge or new connections regarding mathematics and other topics from the course that have not been previously documented. Students then publish their findings using Wikipedia pages in order to share their new knowledge. [For the complete proceedings, see ED672779.]
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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