Timeline for What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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| Apr 28, 2021 at 7:47 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @user25199 Thank you for these videos : very much to the point! | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | user25199 | maths.bris.ac.uk/research/videos | |
| Dec 25, 2012 at 1:57 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @Todd : I have seen a very nice documentary about professional dancers at the Opéra de Paris ( from Reichenbach ? ) . You see them talk and act (dance) for training and interpreting, yet the "truth" they reach through successive corrections is felt but not understood (unless you are semi professional). So the idea is that people may understand the general aim and the kind of logic used by mathematicians without a proper grasp. | |
| Nov 30, 2012 at 21:39 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I don't know how easy it would be to remove the strangeness factor, but I imagine people could find listening to the jargon oddly fascinating, at least for a few minutes. Sort of like listening to people converse in Old English. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 0:08 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | YES! Very nice siglodberg. In France ( Maths en Jeans AT fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATh_en_JEANS ) gives research problem to kids ( from 10 years old on) most of the time the problem is actually an open one. The kids work in group under the aegis of a teacher whose role is solely to help them being clear and to communicate. They come out with a presentation of their work ( findings) at the end of the year. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 11:00 | comment | added | sigoldberg1 | How about movies of kids solving math (or other practical geometry) problems cooperatively, in classrooms even. If you were a kid in a boring school, you might be very gratified to see how a good problem solving session in school might operate. If it were done in the math circle fashion, kids could be motivated to join something like them. They could be arranged by grade level, or you could choose easier or harder ones. Grown up mathematicians would only be one of a series. Come to think of it, math circle organizing could be a major activity of the museum, like glee clubs | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 2:51 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | @Dean again you comment is interesting as you say "foreign" : it is precisely this strangeness that must be removed. | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 2:48 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | I am not a musician , I like music yet had not follow any king of schooling about it ( I cannot read the key) , same for dancing (though I dance rock and roll). Now in both cases I have seen several movies / shows about professional musicians and dancers the way they work the questions they ask and it was very informative for me as for other people in the same situation as I. | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 0:56 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I don't believe that watching working sessions of mathematicians, even with commentary, would be particularly inspiring or interesting to non-mathematicians. What we do is far too foreign. Why would they want to watch us struggle through something they don't understand and have no a priori interest in? | |
| Jan 9, 2011 at 0:13 | history | answered | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | CC BY-SA 2.5 |