Christine von Renesse | Page 7 | Discovering the Art of Mathematics

Dance Representations

This is the first class of the semester. Students have been exploring reflective symmetry using movement and are now sharing their representations.

This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.

Misconceptions about Tangent Lines

In this video you can see how a student gets curious about a mathematical connection after I told the class about a "cool thing": a paper about the mathematics of finger printing that had just crossed my path.

This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.

Curiosity - Staging a Disagreement

Calculus 3 students reinvented the definition of directional derivative in their groups. Afterwards the students compare their different definitions in a whole class discussion. Trying to resolve the disagreement creates energy and curiosity in the classroom.

The class had 25 students and met two times a week for 75 minutes each and one time for 50 minutes.