{"id":1489,"date":"2018-03-07T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2018-03-07T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:19:44","slug":"math-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/math-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Is Beautiful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our District Professional day, UBC Professor of Math Education&nbsp;<strong>Susan Gerofsky<\/strong>, was one of the presenters who showed us the beautiful embodiment of math.&nbsp; In addition to&nbsp; teaching us how to use our bodies to represent multiples, factoring, and graphing, Susan had us engage in a&nbsp; dance around a pole (thanks to Stride teacher Stathi Marghelis for being the pole!) that resulted in the production of a braided ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent reminder to us that math as practiced by mathematicians is beautiful and engaging.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1492 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;Using the physical and visual components of math for our students helps them see this beauty and explore it for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out Susan&#8217;s work here:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1491 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-3-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> http:\/\/edcp.educ.ubc.ca\/faculty-staff\/susan-gerofsky\/<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1490 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-2-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2018\/03\/gerofsky-2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our District Professional day, UBC Professor of Math Education&nbsp;Susan Gerofsky, was one of the presenters who showed us the beautiful embodiment of math.&nbsp; In addition to&nbsp; teaching us how to use our bodies to represent multiples, factoring, and graphing, Susan had us engage in a&nbsp; dance around a pole (thanks to Stride teacher Stathi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/math-is-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Math Is Beautiful&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}