The sunlight shining on our vibrant permutations (original set is the rightmost column)!
I love vivid and almost jarring colors like the chartreuse and blood-orange origami papers in the photo above. Seeing such lively colors almost engenders excitement (at least for me it did!), and I think that was the point of today's class. Mathematics teachers have a reputation of being dull, repetitive, and uninspiring. I think if we make it a goal of ours to integrate creative, multi-modal activities that put mathematics under a different light, we absolutely have the power to inspire our students to like math--maybe even love math.
I can imagine all the activities (bellringing, poem permutation, paper permutation quilt) we did today and applying holiday themes to them! I wonder what the switches would look like if we were to create the image of a Santa Claus hat or a snowflake.
Thank you Nicole! And yes, this is an important part of bringing the arts and math together in an integrated way: to bring excitement, colour, melody, rhythm etc. to math. Math is not bland and boring, and we don't have to be boring to enjoy it! I love your interest in colours, and it would be fun to do holiday-related math art! Lovely.
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