Image | String Art Clover | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Image | Rope Polyhedra | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Image | String Art Cardioid | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Image | Rope Tetrahedron | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | Usually I absolutely dread going to math class. I think it is because I have the negative mindset thatI amjust goingto fail. This class has helped me widenmy horizons and see that I dohave the ability to succeed in math. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | One of my favorite projects in this course was the string art project. I believed this assignment to be very creative and quite contrary to any of my previous history in a math course. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | This course is a breath of fresh air. It helps me understand why math professors enjoy math so much. I see the fun in math now and how beautiful it can be. I had a lot of fun with the projects we created. I also enjoyed the amount of help I received from | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | In my previous math classes, proofs were something I memorized and forgot because my teachers didn’t give me the chance to experience the fun in math. In my high school math classes, I felt dumb because I couldn’t memorize all the equations for the te | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | Math Explorations taught me what mathematics really is. It is an art form. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | This class taught me how to think independently about not only math but other subjects and everyday problem solving. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | I always knew that I would see science or art or literature in real life, but no math class ever taught me that I would see mathematics in real life. Even now I catch myself seeing fractals or hearing about math things in songs. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | I never would have discovered .999… and 1 are equal to one other, I would have never made such beautiful string art and learned the mathematical principles considered with it, I would have never been able to study a famous mathematician, and learned so | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | When I figured out how to cut my own shape out I was actually excited. I actually had fun in doing it and was really proud of myself for being able to do it. | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | I went in to this class saying, “I’m not good at math,” and I left this class saying, “I can do math.” | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Quote | As a student at Westfield State University, this course has had a profound impact on me. I have always had trouble with math and it has helped me look at it in a different light. It is now possible for me to look at mathematics as an art and something t | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 6 months ago |
Blog entry | Mathematics & Dance Proofs | cvonrenesse | 0 | 10 years 10 months ago |
News | Booth at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, January 15-18, 2014 | cvonrenesse | 0 | 11 years 2 weeks ago |
News | AMATYC conference, Anaheim, Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2013 | cvonrenesse | 0 | 11 years 2 months ago |