Learning math creatively!

Sometimes further discussions at this forum about a particular response on a particular topic can get buried, because one can't remember or find the icon or topic, which often can lead to new thoughts, in a fast moving forum.

I want to respond to Daniel Kolling Andersen's simple solution to using WolframAlpha math code to make a Logorithmic Spiral in GH

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/logarithmic-spiral?commen...

The question I often ask, "where were the creative ways to teach Math when I learned Math ?" Why was no one capable to making math more interesting at an early age for learners? I remember taking Calculus 100, the TA in charge would copy verbatim example from the Calculus text book onto a Greenboard. Them students would dutifully copy this stuff into their notebooks and that was considered teaching. I hope this type of teaching, and I use the term loosely, is no longer happening with the advent of cheap tablets.

Undoubtedly we are all getting older yet I'm still fascinated that a Superman logo can be done only using math, and I don't have any idea of how that is done. :(

If I were teaching Math today, that example alone would draw the attention of all of my students in class.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Superman+insignia&lk=1&;...*Lamina.SupermanInsignia

Abdelhamid Belaid: Constructs the entire Alphabet using math: http://abdelhamid394.blogspot.ca/
he also does 3d models using only math equations.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/43056454@N04/sets/72157622368691449/

So here is a simple question: can the letter A be generated in grasshopper using his math formula?

Thanks for listening!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 14, 2015 at 6:32am

kim thank you for sharing this youtube link.

great stuff.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Kolling Andersen on June 14, 2015 at 8:16am

Favourite example of using math creatively, an old classic!

http://people.bath.ac.uk/abscjkw/BritishMuseum/ChrisDeakin2001.pdf

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Great Court Roof w. math.gh, 10 KB

Permalink Reply by Kim hauer on June 14, 2015 at 10:27am

Yikes: just another example of simple math :) I read with interest the grid was limited by the glass size. Looking at other pics of the project it also appears each glass triangle was different, dimensionally. I also wonder what happens to loading should a winter storm dump a load of snow,which would eventually slide into the valley of the central dome?

thanks for the example Daniel!

Permalink Reply by Shridhar Mamidalaa on June 15, 2015 at 12:30pm