Beautiful Math, Code & Art with Nature's Spiral Patterns
Learn Ratios, Angles, Irrational Numbers, and Sequences by Modeling Beautiful Floral Spirals with Code and Art
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What You Will Learn!
- * Use ratios, including the "Golden Ratio," and irrational numbers, in mathematical modeling and visual representations.
- * Use computer code to model how sunflowers, daisies, pinecones, and pineapples arrange their seeds in an optimally space-efficient manner.
- * Master Scratch coding after doing various projects and become familiar with JavaScript with some introductory experiments and applications.
- * Demonstrate why the number of spirals in flowers and pinecones are Fibonacci numbers
- * Model spirals with a free drag and drop code program, called Scratch, and translate these into JavaScript.
- * Explain the purposes of models and simulations in mathematics, science, and arts such as film
- * Use digital painting software to layer transparent color to achieve realistic 3D effects with highlights, shadow, and implied texture.
- * Design interactive animated computer models and use them to create movies
- * Use digital painting software and code to make colorful spiral patterns
Description
Does math seem a bit dull and uninspiring?
Be dazzled by the hypnotic beauty of nature and its spirals found on pinecones, pineapples, daisies, and sunflowers. Discover their underlying mathematical and scientific principles. Discover that math can be beautiful. Explore these natural forms scientifically, mathematically, and artistically as you move through the individual lessons in this course.
Math learning gets creative when you plan your own designs with spiral pattern templates, code interactive animated computer models, and use digital painting software to make colorful patterns. Express your artistic side while learning about floral spirals and the mathematics of this elegant natural organizational pattern. Use ratios, including the "Golden Ratio," to model spirals with free drag and drop code, called Scratch. With movies, computer models, digital drawing, and painting projects, you develop an intuitive and practical knowledge of the Golden Angle and irrational numbers, while learning why the number of spirals in flowers and pinecones are Fibonacci numbers.
In our teaching experience, from primary school through graduate school, we confronted the horror and ugliness of typical educational materials, especially in math. So going beyond flashy and gimmicky approaches screaming for attention, our course sparks awe of nature’s beautiful patterns to drive passionate learning. Looking deeply and decoding nature’s patterns, you discover their underlying simple mathematical rules. Using math, science, and art, students model these patterns in computer code to see how they work, for example, how sunflowers, pinecones, and pineapples arrange their seeds in the most space-efficient way.
Through the beauty of natural patterns, math, science, and coding can be beautiful.
Share the wonder.
Who Should Attend!
- * Awe has no age limits. It's for kids and adults too.
- * Self-directed learners aged 12 and up and adults who want to build math, science, and coding skills, while learning about nature’s beautiful patterns. Learners build skills as they move through the lessons and see their mastery of concepts upon completion of each project.
- * Kids between 10 and 12, with adult participation. They will sense your enthusiasm for beautiful math, science, code, and art. Excitement is contagious!
- * Those who have trouble with math but are inspired by nature and art. Beauty drives math learning.
- * Homeschoolers who want to add beautiful integrated coding, math, science, and art lessons to their curriculum.
- * Classroom teachers who want to add beautiful integrated lessons to enhance their students' learning experience.