Yijia's Blog

           We chose to do a project on Christopher's artwork was because it looked interesting: could be seen as both a 2D object and a 3D object. We tried to find the math concepts or theories behind the artwork, but we did not find anything useful and Christopher did not reply our email. Then we looked into his artwork and description in detail and found that he was trying to explore dimensions with repetition of shapes. By repeating the same 2D shape, a new 2D shape could be formed, and by tilting some of the 2D shapes, the new shape may appear 3D.             Instead of octahedron, we used tetrahedron instead, explored the differences between gaps and no gaps between shapes and created our artwork. We first thought that we could just generate an artwork from computer software, then we noticed that he mentioned about that inconsistency and error may be a seed of creativity. So we tried to draw the art by hand.             The computer-generated artwork is perfe

             If we have another chance, I would like to shorten the presentation part. The first lesson introducing arithmetic sequence should be more focusing on the understanding and application of the concept. It might not be the best idea to talk about special cases for tests and quizzes in the first lesson, because it may be too much information for students. It would also leave more time for students to do some activities and have a more concrete understanding.              If I were to teach the lesson again, I will keep the organization of the lesson: the review with examples, actual course content, and activities. The examples we used are really easy for students to understand, because there are comparisons and real-life examples. I like how “students” engaged when we introduced the concept, it was an active learning experience for them. The activities at the end would help us to assess their learning informally and discover any questi