2023 Bridges Conference Short Film Festival

Susan Gerofsky

Filmmakers

Susan Gerofsky

Associate Professor of Mathematics Education

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

susan.gerofsky@ubc.ca

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/susan-gerofsky/

Statement

Susan Gerofsky is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Environmental Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research in curriculum studies is in embodied mathematics education through the arts, movement, gesture and voice, and she is a regular contributor to Bridges Math and Art. She is active as a poet, playwright, musician and filmmaker, and works with dance and fibre arts. You'll often find her cycling around town with a baritone horn or an accordion.

Films

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The Binary Balcony: Integrating the Arts in Mathematics Teaching

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Susan Gerofsky: Producer & Music Oscar Källberg: Cinematographer Sean McMechan: Editor Special thanks to: Lisa Björklund Boistrup Lena Andersson Ulrika Ryan Lena Karlsson Hanna Hofverberg Annette Mars Petra Svensson Källberg Hamid Assadinia Anna Chronaki Phil Byrne Filmed in Malmö, Sweden, October 2022/ Edited in Vancouver, Canada March 2023. (c) Susan Gerofsky

2023

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A film about arts-based embodied math workshops on binary number patterns with Swedish elementary teacher candidates at Malmö University. Starting from a Mike Naylor poem, "Run, Hero, Run", we used movement and dance, sound, painting, sculpture and fibre arts as ways to build familiarity and understanding of base two number systems, creating a beautiful display of binary art pieces at the university for others to learn from as well. This film shows that it is quite possible to weave together many different embodied artistic expressions of sophisticated mathematical patterns to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of math.