Humanities
  • ISSN: 2155-7993
  • Journal of Modern Education Review

We Strengthened Our Steps Under the Shadow of Pythagoras



Maragkou J. Georgia 

(High School, Skala Oropou, Attiki, Greece)


Abstract: Mathematics and Art have a long historical relationship. Artists have used Mathematics since the 4th century BC when the Greek sculptor Polykleitos wrote his Canon, prescribing proportions based on the golden ratio for the ideal male nude. Besides, in all seasons highlighted prominent art forms used mathematics as the main component of their art. The Greeks were aware of that from the antiquity and without Geometry they could not have gone further within Art. So, teaching Maths the last decade in the 1st Junior High School of Skala Oropou Attikis, Greece, I settled and founded a Laboratory of Mathematics. I showed my students how I designed and constructed my art-objects packed in my personal collection years ago. As these constructions apart from wealthy geometric structures they have also a significant aesthetic interest, I realized that the students observed the Hidden Math Beauty in them and they’ve got great inspiration and interest in Maths. At last they started also cooperating and creating math artworks and we presented 7 math exhibitions till now.



Key words: math lab, maths and art





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