DANCING THE MATH: Teaching and Researching a Dance-based Inquiry of Geometric Transformations
Dr. Alison E. Leonard, Associate Professor of Arts & Creativity with the College of Education at Clemson University
Friday, September 13 at 9:00 am
251 Jorgensen Hall
Dance in PK-16 education, as a situated and embodied form of knowledge and representation, provides engaging, interactive, and social opportunities for teaching and learning. Since dance is innately mathematical in its patterns, sequences; timing and rhythm; spatial and directional relationships; and reliance on shapes, sizes, and parts to whole, it makes an ideal partner for mathematics inquiry. This presentation will explore Dr. Leonard’s continuing pedagogical and research explorations with a dance-based movement-in-inquiry strategy for learning transformational geometry. In sharing her work, she will discuss the process of creating a dance sequence that includes geometrical transformations of translation, reflection, and rotation with students to conducting research on how dance-based inquiry has impacted preservice and in-service teaching perspectives, practices, and identities.
Sponsored by the Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Graduate Student Organization. Please email atankersley@huskers.unl.edu for more information.