DEVELOPING CULTURE

THROUGH MATH & SCIENCE

EDUCATION

The 2nd My World Conference:

East West Collaboration 2013

Medan, 25 Feb 2013

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Creative

Seeing

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Mathematical eyes

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Math: World Peace

Beauty

Scientific Mind

Culture of

Reason

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Sinclair, N. Mathematics and beauty, p.29

“Wired” for beauty and

pleasure

HOMO AESTHETICUS

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Sinclair, N. Mathematics and beauty, p.34

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“delight lies somewhere between boredom and

confusion” ~Ernst Gombrich (1979)

BOREDOM CONFUSION

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Beauty in Math and Science

Real aesthetic requires

rationality.

Visual

Idea

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Beauty in form; Beauty in idea.

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Jensen, E.

Arts with the

brain in mind

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Eric Jensen’s Arts with the Brain in Mind,

p. 8

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Jensen’s

AwBiM, p. 61

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Jensen’s

AwBiM, p. 81

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ART PROJECTS

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Seymour Papert, 1978

Popular views of mathematics, including the one that informs

mathematical education in our schools, exaggerate its logical face and devalue all connections with everything else in human experience. By doing so, they

fail to recognize the resonances between mathematics and the total

human being which are responsible for mathematical pleasure and beauty…

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