Susan Gerofsky
Teacher candidates in Susan Gerofsky's math education class at the
University of British Columbia were asked to interact with
mathematical artwork from the Bridges Math and Art 2016 gallery with
mathematics education in mind. Ali Hasan, Colin Grabowski and John
Hawthorne extended and varied Marc and Marion Chamberland's
'Kandinsky in Binary' in fascinating, interactive and pedagogical
ways that created new and related works of art (and teaching). When
teachers enjoy and express mathematical relationships in artistic
and embodied ways, they can share the delight of these intriguing
forms with learners as a mode of mathematical exploration. These
three new teachers engaged with the Chamberlands' artwork, and
brought it in interesting ways to new media (animation, music and
original computer graphics) and new approaches to teaching about
number systems.