an art gallery with Escher pictures
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I *discovered* the works of M.C. Escher as I was planning for a math lesson involving tessellations. It was toward the end of the year, and I was looking for something related to mathematics in art that wasn’t considered ‘new’ standards being introduced during government-mandated testing, which consumed an entire week of half-day instructional time.
(How gov’t-mandated testing has evolved since my days as a student to the beginning years of my vocation until the last couple of years is a totally different and lengthy diatribe.)
Anyway, many of my students were intrigued with his works. They began searching for YT links to share in class... I could go on and on with the amazing works of art they found and how I explored more for my next years’ lessons to include daVinci’s Vitruvian Man - clothed in a make-shift speedo so as not to offend sensibilities, the Golden Ratio, etc. AND, if I were ‘called out,’ I prepared documentation supporting that all topics were mathematcially related to the 7th-grade standards.
Although this post is a SLIDE, and I will refrain from diverting the topic anymore than I already have, please note my tagline.
((hugs))
~ lyby
https://twitter.com/arizonaaudit/status/1408580512453627913?s=21
AZ Audit- Paper examination and counting are finished today.
Has that always been your tagline? I think I remember it.
If I had had your for a math teacher, my life would have been different.
The Golden Ratio
When I was teaching (community college), it was TGR that led me to discover the “3-4-5-rule” for right triangles.
Math is cool.
We saw an Escher exhibit at the Dali Museum in St Pete. I was shocked at how small some of the paintings were.