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The Experience Workshop – Movement for the Experience Centered Education of Mathematics, started in 2008 in Pécs city (Hungary) as a collaborative effort of the worldwide known scientists, artists and educators of ...
Zometool
Zometool can be seen as the language of the structure of space. Space organizes itself around beautiful geometrical relationships that govern both natural and human-built structures, and Zometool translates these relationships into ...
April 12-13, 2012 @ University of Jyväskylä, Finland: BRIDGES FOR THE MIND 2012 – EXPERIENCES AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ARTS AND MATHEMATICS open seminar. The Experience Workshop and its members and partners were introduced in the program by Kristóf Fenyvesi.
Mike Naylor, American mathematics professor from the Norwegian National Center for Mathematics in Education and artistic director of the “Matematikkhuset” project also participated at the event. He talked about his mathematical artworks inspired by the human form, mathematical juggling and other effective methods for popularizing maths, and his projects to create indoor and outdoor creative mathematics spaces.
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March 9, 2012: The Experience Workshop Movement for the Experience-Centered Education of Mathematics visited the Constantine the Philosopher University for the first time! 7 interactive workshops, interesting lectures and the exhibit of Robert Fathauer (USA) and Lajos Szilassi (HU) were offered a memorable experience for everyone who participated…
200 high school students of Nitra city (Slovakia) and students of the Constantine the Philosopher University were coming together to experience that the connections between mathematics and the arts is a source of discoveries, inspiration and creativity.
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March 2, 2012: thankfully to the invitation and great hospitality of the Swedish science center NAVET, the Experience Workshop, the Ars GEometrica and the Bridges Organization introduced its various activities in Borås, Sweden for the first time!
At the celebrational opening of the NAVET’s new interactive mathematical exhibit, called ‘Dodekaeder’, Kristóf Fenyvesi, the leading curator of Experience Workshop, Ars GEometrica and the coordinator of community events of the Bridges Organization tributed his talk to the memory of the great Swedish artist, the father of ‘impossible objects’, Oscar Reutersvärd and reminded to the educational importance of the playful and artistic connections of mathematics.
In the framework of the presentation, besides the international reception and inspiration of Reutersvärd, Fenyvesi called the attention to the oeuvre of such Hungarian followers of Reutersvärd like Tamás F. Farkas and István Orosz who collaborating with the Experience Workshop, Ars GEometrica and the Bridges Organization since a long time ago.
The Dodekaeder Exhibit, designed with the contribution of Anthony Furness, a noted artist, photographer and educator (author of number of maths education resource books) communicates and teaches a great abundance of mathematical and geometrical knowledge in a children-centered, playful form.
Lotta Johansson, the NAVET’s directress finds especially important her science center’s wide collaboration with universities and colleges of teacher education. The center built up a close cooperation with the local teacher’s college and hosted more than 13,000 teachers and teacher education students in 2011 from all over Sweden! The NAVET functions also as a resource center for schools in the Borås area.
The teachers can borrow books, resource materials and even special educational toy and tool packages from the NAVET. Above the interactive thematic exhibitions, you can also find a theater room and education laboratories in the center.
We hope that we can inform our partners about more and more results of the collaboration between the NAVET and the Experience Workshop in the near future.
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March 9., 2012
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
The Experience Workshop Movement for the Experience-Centered Education of Mathematics visits the Constantine the Philosopher University for the first time!
High school students of Nitra city (Slovakia) and students of the Constantine the Philosopher University are coming together to experience that the connections between mathematics and the arts is a source of discoveries, inspiration and creativity.
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The Experience Workshop’s action- and game-centered education programs often have scientific outcomes. At the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, we are going to show how our Zometool workshops can contribute to space education.
With the leadership of Sándor Kabai engineer and Dr. Szaniszló Bérczi physicist-astronomer, the basics were summarized in a joint-paper, which you can download from here:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/pdf/2611.pdf
The Zometool modell, mentioned in the paper was built in the Eger College:
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