I keep trying to find projects that are fun, creative and involve problem solving. You may have noticed the 8th iteration Sierpinski Triangle at the back of the room. It is soon to be a 9th iteration fractal which is 4 times larger than the one that has been up for the last week. It will go go from floor to ceiling in the room. What I've liked about this project is that everyone has contributed a small amount of work and several students have gone on to figure out how to make the larger iterations and continue to work on it just becasue they like doing it. This is the ultimate goal, to find things to do that students actually enjoy and are challenging problem solving activities.
Your class has had a tesselation project for the last few days. At first it seems like an easy problem, most of you have done something similar in prior years. What I've tried to do is leave it more open-ended so that there is something to solve rather than give you pre-set tiles. There are an infinite number of solutions and that is where art and math intersect, way out there in infinity. I'm curious about your thoughts about these type of projects. Would you like to try to work on the 10th iteration of the Sierpinski triangle? What other things would be interesting to work on?
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I dont really have anything specific i would like to work on. but i dont just want to sit in class and hear people talk. id like to do something. like something related to art or just something that we can be moving around and not just sitting.
ReplyDeleteI think we should because i am not very good at art work and would like to get better. I think that we should do projects like this because they let us have a little free time and not have to work in a textbook.They are also good because they have to do with math so thats means we learn and draw at the same time.
ReplyDeletehi. i think the fractal triangle thing is cool! talk about team work haha. i think you guys should hang it on the celing so if you look up you see one giant fractal! sketchy!
ReplyDeletethe tesselation thing has been kinda funky for me. i cant find a shape that works cause i dont draw perfect straight lines twice.
yes we should do the 10th iteration of the sierpinski triangle.
Personally, i really like the big fractal in the back of the room. When you walk in and look back
ReplyDeleteBAM! you see a big triangle, with smaller triangles, and even smaller triangles and so on. I think doing the 10th iteration would be soo cool because its artsy fartsy and colorful!
It was a bit weird doing the tesselations since i didn't have much of an idea of what shape to resemble. The fractal is cool, we should continue it, it just keeps going and going and going...if we do continue it..It is fun to do creative things...but maybe things that people have more of an idea about what to do...
ReplyDeleteI like the triangle in the back of the room, and would definitely like to work on a 10th iteration. I liked the Sierpinski triangle project better than the tesselation project. I think it would be nice to do a math project that did not have to do with art. But any project is better than doing book work!
ReplyDeleteI feel that I learn more if I do a project instead of book work.
I liked working on the Sierpinski triangle and I would like to do a 10th iteration of the Sierpinski triangle. The tesselation project was better than book work, but I had more fun with the Sierpinski triangle. I like working on projects in class, and I think I learn more from them. I would also like to do some projects that did not have to do with art. But, I want to continue to do projects in class.
ReplyDeleteThe tesselation is fine. I just made i simple little shape and colored but i do like the big triangle. It sort of adds flare to the room. I think it is safe to say that your class is the only class that had a big triangle in the back which i think is cool. But I don't really have any suggestions about what we should do.
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ReplyDeleteI liked the tesselations because I've been doing them since first grade. I'd really like to get some tiles of the shapes that tesselate and do some more.
ReplyDeleteI think that kids our age respond better to hands on activities. Its way better than just getting a lecture then doing book work. I personally would like to play some math games or competitions in class.
ReplyDeletethe tessalation is hard because it is isn't easy to find a shape that will tesselate perfectly.
ReplyDeletethe fractal is interesting. i'd rather do this weirdo art work than trying to learn, reading "talk it over". we should do the 10th something or other...
I like when we can connect art with math! It is so cool that we get to do projects like the Sierpinski Triangle and the tessellation project. I think it is really fun when we all work together to make something. School shouldn't just be teachers giving you worksheets, hands-on work is very helpful to visual learners like myself.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very cool that we can connect art with math. It is a very great way of figuring out figures differently. I also think rizal is right that math games like the lemonade stand is fun yet uses critical thinking too. And would help us more than the art.. . .we should save that for art class.The sierpinski triangle is very fascinating . . . every time i walk into the room i always look to the back of the room. I think it is a great idea to build onto this triangle. - Peace
ReplyDeleteI like working on these kinds of projects. Its way better than working on text book stuff. I love looking at the back of the room and seeing the HUGE triangle. I really don't like working out of text book every single day. I like a little change in the way work work in math class. Any ways I think it would be very cool to work on the 10th iteration.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have fun creative projuect applied to math, it helps me learn and remember steps to the math. It also is more fun than just doing worksheets and "talk it overs". I hope we have more projects like this in the future.
ReplyDeletethe big triangles are cool i guess. id like to do projects like that agian where we get to color and stuff they are fun. and everyone enjoys them. plus i dont learn very much from listening to people and like to do hands on stuff that will stick in my mind
ReplyDeleteI would like to work more on the Sierpinski triangle. It would be cool if there was a huge triangle in our classroom. I also think that hands on activities help us focus more and I would much rather do projects like this instead of work out of the math textbook.
ReplyDeleteI like it when we talk about philosophy because it is interesting and it stays in mind and makes me think about the philosophy life ofand why we are here. so i would like to talk about philosophy in class.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of the previous comments that hands on activities help us focus and be more productive in class. I think we should do more hands on projects in the future because I think it will be better for us than the textbooks. I would really like to work on more tessalations and more projects that have art in them. I think hands on projects would be very good for our class.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what numerous students have uttered above. I enjoy spending my time in enriching curriculum such as the Sierpinski triangle. I also enjoy being apart of large groups and teams that are sharing a common goal. Art is a very fundamental subject that when combined with math can cause great discoveries and knowledge to be learned. I look forwrd to working on the tenth iteration of the enormous sierpinski triangle. possibility for our class couldf be to hange the triangle out in the hall or on the interior walls of the lunchroom. Everbody likes working in groups because it is quite fun. In reality, only united can we create great things and acclompish the goals that we have set to achieve for the future. P.S. I also don't like working on Talk it overs because they are crazier than opening a small business next to wal-mart! And please you guys can we try to be more productive in class and finish our work. I hate it when people are lazy and slack off. I'm a family guy! - Farhan Vohra Quote: Adults suck, then you are one.
ReplyDeleteI really love working on projects if only its interesting and fun to work on. especially if its on math i would understand things better. i wouldn't just understand math if we just keep on doing worksheets and talk it over becasue it dont really help to learn although these things kind of help me in a way.so i hope towards the end of the year we would have more projects related to math.
ReplyDeleteI think the fun projects we all do in class are fun and broaden our knowledge of math and will hook us into the learning of it. It sure is a lot better then listening to lectures and not even getting it. If you can get us hooked into it then we will learn it a lot better
ReplyDeletei like these art projects we've been doing theyre really fun. i do think we should spend alittle time with those equations i dont understand them at all! although that enormous triangle in the back of the room freaks me out, i can say that i contributed to it. i would most def want to do more projects like the triangle this and the tesselations.
ReplyDeletei think that we should do fun projects more often to envelop the students
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying learning about the art aspect of math and i would love to do more of it. its really interesting learning about other areas of math besides the regular equations and stuff we usually learn. i would definately be interested in working on projects that involve different and new types of math. i think the fractals, tessalations and philosophy projects give us a new view of math and make us think in a different way. i am excited to be done with the math book and i cant wait to see what new projects we will be working on that will expand our minds in different ways.
ReplyDeleteI found it fun to do do the tessellation again since I haven't done it since art class in 5th grade. Its easy to see how every pattern is related to math. But math is also evident in other kinds of art. An example is figuring out where facial features belong in a portrait.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of doing projects as a class. It gives us the time to learn to work with others. I think this would be way better than book work. i think it would be fun to make the larger triangle. but maby we can do that twards the end of the year because i still need to work on the math skills we have been working on!
ReplyDeletethe tesselation was hard. i tried to take 40 mins trying to get a shape and couldnt get it. Even though i havent done it i feel that i would be happy the way it turned out. i think that if we work on arts and crafty thingy at least once a week we would be more relaxed. even though i dont understand how it involves with what we will do in class. i believe it will effect the way i look at it?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the projects we have been doing are fun. even though i didnt understand how to do the tesselation (worked on it for 40 mins). i feel that once i finish it i would be proud with it. i think that it we work on these type of projects at least once every other week or every week we would have a day to relax.
ReplyDeleteI like the big fractal thing in the back. The tesselation was a little hard and weird because i couldn't find a shape for it to appear like. But i like doing those projects better than doing stuff in the book.
ReplyDeletei like working on these projects more than working on talk it overs theyre really boring.
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-Lisa
I think art is a great method to teach students in math class not because it is consciously related to math, but because it's fun and may involve super-ultra-hard-not-even-worth-it problem solving like the tessellation thingy. I think that it being related to math is completely irrelevant because I know that somehow you will link art to math like you do with simple day-to-day tasks such as shopping. If we are to learn art I hope that it will involve the short absent minded coloring inside the lines of numerals.(to make your job of linking it to math fairly easy
ReplyDeleteyeah, i actually like these projects compared to book work, and if you've got more, i say why not.
ReplyDeletethat last post was van by the way, g-mail doesnt work on my computer.
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer to do more art since its fun and I can actually pay attention to what I am doing and understand better.
ReplyDeleteI think we should do more things like the tesselations. I think its fun because its different from what we usually do and I like being able to draw and do more art. The triangle sounds a bit fun, but somewhat boring since everyone would be doing the same thing and we wouldn't be able to see what others came up with. But I really think you should do more art related things in math.
ReplyDeletei like the tesselations. i would like to try stuff involving the golden ratio. my brother told me about them. something about a ratio that you see in nature. shells, human body dimensions, etc. da vinci was supposedly interested in them. isn't he a good artist?
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