Beauty in Nature
Good morning, I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I noticed math in a few different places, per usual . . . but I'm wondering how to bring them into my classroom. The wind blew around my kayak a bit, so the math of that (hydrodynamics vs aerodynamics) could be interesting. However, I'm not sure (yet - growth mindset) how to make that accessible to 7th graders, since it is calculus based physics. I also saw several ripples (well, every time I cast my lure). I'm still wondering how to present it, but I love that I can see it. Maybe I can show my students first that it is there, and ask them to find it themselves and describe it. Anyhow, I like fractals and curves - and in the context of nature they are better. Math is too often seen in the absence of context, and what it actually is is the language of the sciences. The language of what happens in the real world. If my students could see this, at 7th grade or in college, they might love what I teach instead of (mo