Mathematics suggested by a logo: both rich and beautiful?

• Martin Griffiths ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Manchester

     University of Manchester

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Teaching mathematics and its applications, ISSN 0268-3679, Vol. 29, Nº. 4, 2010, págs. 216-229
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We consider here the plethora of mathematical ideas arising from something as apparently banal as an association logo. This example is used to illustrate the fact that a potentially rich task may also have the capacity to appeal, in a powerful way, to learners' aesthetic sensibilities. It is to be hoped that both teachers and lecturers will find some of the mathematical, and even the more philosophical, notions presented here to be of interest, and that these ideas might serve as catalysts with respect to the development of activities for the classroom or the lecture theatre.