Bob McVean had us learning about the beauty of math through the arts and history, philosophy and games, with projects that had many of us “artsy” students falling in love with mathematics. It took an amazing math teacher to make me see that these subjects were intimately linked.
My strongest subject was mathematics I found it easy and natural to understand its logical patterns, but what I loved was poetry and language, music and theatre. I was one of those students in my secondary school years in Hamilton, Ontario. While there is no doubt that mathematics and science have close connections, I’d like to introduce you to the equally close connections mathematics has to the arts, and to suggest that arts-based math pedagogy can help you reach students who are more oriented toward the arts than the sciences.
#Painting music math art plus
This binary still exists in our society as people talk about the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), and sometimes have difficulty understanding STEAM (STEM plus arts). Many of us grew up with a school curriculum that separated the “hard” disciplines of mathematics and sciences from the “soft” disciplines of the visual and performing arts.
By Susan Gerofsky (she/her), Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, UBC
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