Bridging Art and Math
The Bridges Organization holds an annual conference on the connections between math and art. In addition to speakers and such, the conference boasts educational workshops, and art and film exhibitions. In 2013, the conference has been scheduled to take place from July 27-31, in Enschede, the Netherlands.
Read MoreMath Art: Elementary Education Activities
“Math Art” is a supplemental set of math activities for 2nd-4th grades created by Bronx math teacher Zachary Brewer. The activities are all hands-on artistic lessons in basic math principles, often involving paper cut-outs. The whole set can be purchased on the website.
Read MoreChart Topper Algorithm
The University of Bristol’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory has developed an algorithm that can predict with a 60 percent success rate whether a song will make it to the top 5 in the UK charts. The algorithm creates a score for each song based on comparing measurements of various audio features of the song with the features of hits from that time period.
Read MoreVisual arts + Calculus
“A common calculus exercise is to present a function and have students plot its graph,” explains Croatian math and computer science teacher Maja Cvitkovic. “But this is too passive for me.” To help students gain greater insight into functions and their corresponding graphs, Cvitkovic turned the traditional exercise “upside down,” as she describes it. Her...
Read MoreThe Artist is a Mathematician
Carla Farsi is a mathematician AND artist, and her career seems to be a constant dialogue and dialectic between the two, rather than a simple collaboration. She points out the deep similarities between art and mathematics from the point of view of the practitioner: “Something that is logical, that makes a mathematical theorem, also makes some kind of a visual statement about structure and...
Read MoreMath Through Music
From Oracle’s ThinkQuest project (“Projects by Students For Students) comes a site with a series of lessons linking math and music. “Math and music have always been considered closely connected in many ways. It is widely believed that students who do well in music also excel in math. Some research shows that starting music lessons at a young age enhances math ability . One...
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