We are an inner city IB World School located in Texas. Our school was founded in 1926. The diversity within our student population is a solid representation of the world we share. While not always easy, we embrace this challenge going forward.
My students are capable of handling more than an average education.
Many of them are good test takers, but heavy loads of standardized testing and deep budget cuts are limiting opportunities for innovative learning. Furthermore, while the focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is very important, it is missing the arts. We are believers in STEAM (where the A stands for art).
Tough budgets and issues regarding standardization aside, we think our students are better served with a healthy selection of creative, high-level learning opportunities. My colleagues and I serve to help this happen for our students.
My Project
With our AIM projects, my students will be developing powerful insights connecting art and math, and their knowledge and skills will grow exponentially.
Technology helps teachers share the knowledge of the world to students; it helps teachers communicate big ideas efficiently.
With a projector and a laptop computer, my students can see and imagine the world in new and challenging ways - all together, in real time. These are indispensable items in the classroom. We present a lot in my classroom, and this laptop will allow us to present and critique student projects, and much more! We all know the technology has a limited shelf life and needs no be updated or replaced every few years. Now is the time, we need a new laptop computer to make Art in Math happen.
Being able to see math in the arts matters! AIM student projects make insightful and relevant connections between visual arts and math. Students will be introduced to geometry through the visual arts. Geometry is concerned with measure and earth; and art, the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. We see they are of a single family.
All great artists and mathematicians know that an ellipse is a circle drawn in perspective. It is a representation of space. An ellipse shows various view point angles. It is an abstract concept that can be made real - like a rocket! Asians, Egyptians, Greeks, Mayans and more show us these truths in different ways. The Renaissance introduced us to the depth of perspective drawing. We will follow Euclid, Pythagoras, Polykleitos, Da Vinci, Durer and M.C. Escher... and our computer will help us show how mathematics and art have complimented each other through the ages.
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