Reflection of Math/Art Project
In the beginning of the project, we thought about doing more on 4-colour-theory and expending the original work for our project work. However, we find if we regard the original work as the small square in the centre of the work, it would be to easy to extend by following a pattern. We decided to focus on perfect and imperfect squared square and rebuild our work by using weaving.
We tried to form the work by paper string in the same size first and succeeded. However, since there are squares in difference size inside the work, and it involves too many overlapping of ribbons, we took many tries but could not build up things we expected. When we were worrying about building up the centre square, my teammate Tiffany came up with idea of using Chinese knot for the centre part. Although we are both Chinese, neither of us have any knowledge of making Chinese knot. We searched for proper knot to make up a square and watched toturial about how to make ones. We also changed some of our idea and decide to do some fabric art at the same time. We thought about leaving largest square as the background and build smaller squares, but found that making smaller ones are too difficult (due to overlap of ribbons). This is the reason that we swifter to leaving uncovered background as the four smallest squares.We also planned about introducing how to make Chinese knot, but end up making it as our activity.
However, I hope we could have activities that are more "mathematical" so that students can learn more about math rather than just making knots. Although it is a good chance to know about foreign culture, as a math class, it is better for us to give tasks that are more mathmetical. Also, making a knot might be too difficult for beginners to do in 10 minutes since Tiffany and I spent half an hour to build our first successful knot. I also hope to show imperfect squared square is cool even it is 2D art, maybe we could introduce more example of imperfect squared square. We had a plan B of asking students to build a imperfect squared square, but we chose to ask students to do something more "challenging".
We tried to form the work by paper string in the same size first and succeeded. However, since there are squares in difference size inside the work, and it involves too many overlapping of ribbons, we took many tries but could not build up things we expected. When we were worrying about building up the centre square, my teammate Tiffany came up with idea of using Chinese knot for the centre part. Although we are both Chinese, neither of us have any knowledge of making Chinese knot. We searched for proper knot to make up a square and watched toturial about how to make ones. We also changed some of our idea and decide to do some fabric art at the same time. We thought about leaving largest square as the background and build smaller squares, but found that making smaller ones are too difficult (due to overlap of ribbons). This is the reason that we swifter to leaving uncovered background as the four smallest squares.We also planned about introducing how to make Chinese knot, but end up making it as our activity.
However, I hope we could have activities that are more "mathematical" so that students can learn more about math rather than just making knots. Although it is a good chance to know about foreign culture, as a math class, it is better for us to give tasks that are more mathmetical. Also, making a knot might be too difficult for beginners to do in 10 minutes since Tiffany and I spent half an hour to build our first successful knot. I also hope to show imperfect squared square is cool even it is 2D art, maybe we could introduce more example of imperfect squared square. We had a plan B of asking students to build a imperfect squared square, but we chose to ask students to do something more "challenging".
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