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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Trends: Education Can Take Us In All Kinds Of Directions A few days ago I posted a couple of neat videos from a series entitled, "Doodling In Math Class." The creator is a young lady named Vi Hart who is featured in this rather interesting New York Times article. A few quotes from the article to further introduce you: "....She calls herself a full-time recreational mathemusician, an off-the-beaten-path choice with seemingly limited prospects. And for most of the two years since she graduated from Stony Brook University, life as a recreational mathemusician has indeed been a meager niche pursuit.
Then, in November, she posted on YouTube a video about doodling in math class, which married a distaste for the way math is taught in school with an exuberant exploration of math as art." At second glance, the intertwining of art and math seems to be the family business. Her father, George W. Hart, builds sculptures based on geometric forms. His day job until last year was as a computer science professor at Stony Brook; he is now chief of content for the Museum of Mathematics, which is looking to open in Manhattan next year. The summer Ms. Hart was 13, she tagged along with her father to a computational geometry conference. “And I was hooked, immediately,” she said. “It was so different from school, where you are surrounded by this drudgery and no one is excited about it. Any gathering of passionate people is fun, really no matter what they’re doing. And in this case, it was mathematics.”  Posted at 10:11 AM Keywords: Trends , Vi Hart , Doodling In Math Class 2 Comments |