MATH AND ART CONVERGENCE FOR EDUCATION

Art, Math, Science, and Computers

This article discusses and illustrates the beneficial symbiosis between art, math, science, and computers. Mathematical thinking, computer programs, and interactive CAD environments make it possible to gain a deeper understanding of existing artwork and to extract generating paradigms that can produce additional art pieces of the same type. Conversely, well-crafted visualization models for pure...

Math and science education.

The Bricklayer Ecosystem - Art, Math, and Code

This paper describes the Bricklayer Ecosystem – a freely-available online educational ecosystem created for people of all ages and coding backgrounds. Bricklayer is designed in accordance with a “low-threshold infinite ceiling” philosophy and has been successfully used to teach coding to primary school students, middle school students, university freshmen, and in-service secondary math teachers...

Art and Design Education in the UK

This paper seeks to identify the philosophical origins of the teaching of art and design and subsequently trace its incorporation into a teaching program in the UK. It briefly discusses the nature of its classical ‘drawing’ background and the conflicts in the debate as to what ‘design’ means. It then goes on to identify the cultural and political context which shaped the institutions, such as A...

Expressive pen-based interfaces for math education

Mathematics students almost exclusively use pencil and paper—that is, they learn without computational support. In this research, 16 high school students varying in ability from low to high participated in a comparative assessment of geometry problem solving using: (1) pencil and paper, (2) an Anoto-based digital stylus and paper interface, (3) a pen tablet interface, and (4) a graphical tablet...