Well, last week I found two blogs that spiked my interest, one did not post this week, and the other has just started posting again now that she has a handle on her classroom. So, though I will continue to check on those blogs - I found a new Math Education blog on tumblr. This blog instantly caught my eye, one because it's extremely witty and there are tons of math jokes on the page. Then I scrolled down to the first textual post, "Murals & Math: One School's Solution to Graffiti." The writer of the blog and a school math teacher teamed up to work with one another to incorporate art and math into one. Now I'm thinking - well math people are brained while artists are usually right brained - so how is this one going to work? Then I think a little more about it, and well I love math and I'm a pretty good artist, so it could work.
The goal of these two was to incorporate school into the everyday life their students are living. For instance, the first project was to survey the students and ask them how they felt on a scale of 10 throughout different times of the day. From there, a histogram was produced and painted along the back wall of the school. It looks a lot like art work when you walk into the building, but when you read the graph, thats when you can understand what it actually is. I thought it was actually very clever, and I'm sure it reminds students to be happier.
My inner algebraic nerd got extremely excited when I saw that they chose to represent pi in an artistic form. Each number 1-9 was represented by it's own color in the key, and the graph was drawn out in the shape of a snail's shell - which I of course loved since you don't ever really know when that spiral stops just because you can't see it anymore doesn't mean its not there - just like the number pi itself! I really liked that they were able to bring "graffiti" to the streets and the schools in a positive and educational way.
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