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user-inactivated  ·  3858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You never did math in high school

If I had a badge, you'd have gotten it.





katakowsj  ·  3857 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had a badge to give. Got it. Damn fine thinking there.

I teach middle school math, yet had my eye on Parsons School of Design in Chicago at one time. I still share my art portfolio with my students every year several times to share math and art connections. They dig studies in proportions, perspective, and the golden mean, and most off all they think it's pretty wild that their math teacher somehow can produce art. Too many of them see math as a restrictive environment than a set of tools, in which to make their poetic dreams a reality as paint, pencil, or other media.