The Euclidean way

 A warm welcome for another week! In today's post we are going to carry out a dynamic that has never been done before in this course: flipped classroom. The activity will be very simple and instead of being led and guided by me, you will be responsible for your own learning, or in other words, you will become teachers for a day. Doesn't it sound great? Well then, the task will unfold in the following steps:  1. Watch the video at least twice. 2. Take note of the types of geometric lines, geometric shapes and plane shapes. 3. Make a creative format that you will use as a support for a presentation in front of the class group.           I'll answer all the questions bellow! Good luck my dearest thinkers! Can wait to see the results!

 Welcome back my super learners! So today we will be dealing with a matter not really worked or adressed at schools: emotional education. We have often heard of classes full of failures and people who give up on their learning because they are pigeon-holed for their apparent lack of ability in an area of knowledge. While there is much more to people than their aptitudes, at least those measured by the curriculum do not do justice to the full potential that a person can achieve, but rather fence them in and limit them.  This is why we speak of an education in values, one that is able to belong to people considering their holistic condition and stimulating all the intelligences involved in the teaching-learning process. But what does it really mean that Mathematics teaches "emotional skills" or is given with a gender perspective? Does it have anything to do with the difficulty of the curriculum? In order to answer this question we will carry out such an interesting dynamic. Yes...

Hey there, welcome back! Last entry we learned how to recognize different geometrical patterns in our daily live momentos and spaces. Now we will apply this perspective to nature . A bit of historical background will be very useful for starters. That is to say the Pythagorean theorem, the formulas for calculating the surface and volume of different geometric figures, the number Pi... These are all concepts of classical or Euclidean geometry, which are taught in schools alongside analytical geometry (which translates these figures into algebraic expressions such as functions or equations) and which are perfectly adapted to the world we humans have created.  But what if there were a "raw" geometry behind the behavioural patterns of the different elements of nature? A geometry not adapted to the world humans have created, but to everything that was here before they arrived, and even to the functioning of their own bodies. A new perspective with which to analyse and decipher the...

 Mathematics is as old as mankind and has been an extremely useful tool in the development of mankind. Most scientific advances are based on this science, hated by many and loved by few. One of its first branches is Geometry, worked by ancient civilisations, especially the Egyptians, to whom its origins are attributed, since every year they had to measure their land due to the overflowing of the Nile river. But, not only the Egyptians had practical needs to which they gave solution by means of Mathematics, but also the Babylonians, the Greeks and others. Every day we use mathematical knowledge to solve problems of all kinds, especially problems of construction, design, production, production of medicines, among others. One of these skills has to do with angles, which we often use without realising it. For example, when we place objects on walls, such as pictures, we have to place them at a 90 degree angle to the wall to prevent them from falling. We also see how the roofs of the ho...

 Hi there! So todays' post is going to be organized in a complete different way. I'll always leave you some interesting information related with the geometry topic, but it is usually theory, so now we will move on to practice!  And how it is going to be done? you may be wondering, well let me get started ;). Here there is a video where a proffesional drawer explains the steps followed by him in his artwork creations. He also mentions how to implement different geometric elements according to the message we wanna transmit. Colors and disposition are another two key factors that will influence the viewer perception, so let's get into bussines! STEP 1 - See the video and take notes about the different steps and ways of proceeding in a creative process. STEP 2 - ARTIST TIME! grab a sheet of white paper and set your imagination free. You can upload a photo showing the final results and we can even expose them in class as an art gallery! Take pictures during the process and be a...

Hey there my little beans ! Today's entree will be about the strong relationship between art and geometry . Let's get into work! Since archaic times, geometric shapes have played a powerful role in art and visual representations. Since primitive cave art, geometry has always been present in man's constant desire to create. Geometry's relationship to art can be studied in the artistic representations of the medieval period, where bodies are not represented with volume, nor do the proportions of the human figure correspond to the classical ideal. Symbolism was much more important than form, so forms did not enjoy a beauty of their own, since they were not intended to be beautiful. In the period from the Romanesque to the Gothic, two different forms of proportionality were used in architecture throughout Europe, based on two figures: the triangle and the square. In "Ad Triamgulum" proportionality, different types of triangles are used, especially equilateral, re...