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Lego Bricks in the Classroom
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Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:46:27 GMT
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Last summer, I ran a Lego Geometry workshop at UU church camp. It totally
rocked. When participants left the first day, they were saying things like,
“Now I finally know what ratios are good for.” These are adults, mind you. It
gave me such a charge to realize I had reached some folks who probably didn’t
like mathematics that much. So I decided to bring Lego bricks onto campus;
being an overworked public educator, I am finally posting last fall’s photos.
I proudly present installment I:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=134640 (when moderated)
You see photos from my first talk (a delightful train wreck), a few sessions
from calculus II and modern geometry, and a bunch of model shots taken right
before I took the surfaces apart. The measurement and Pythagorean theorem stuff
didn’t photograph very well, but the surfaces--what would become my double
integration lesson--look quite nice, if I may say so myself. Of course, I
didn’t build any of this. My students did.
When a grad school colleague heard what I was doing, she insisted I come down to
James Madison University and present there. Sadly, I have no photos from this
event, which is a shame, because it was delightful--and not a train wreck at
all.
The story continues into the winter and spring--but I’ll make you wait for those
chapters.
A cursory search here turns up a few brave souls who have used Lego bricks in
physics and engineering classrooms. Any Lego mathematicians out there? Make
some noise!
-Professor Teddy
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