Learning to love math through the exploration of maypole patterns

2025-01-22 Classification：Dance Click()
Author：Campbell, Julianna; von Renesse, Christine

Article Title：Learning to love math through the exploration of maypole patterns

Abstract：
In this paper, Prof. Christine von Renesse and Julianna Campbell show how seeing maypole dancing through a mathematical lens can excite liberal arts students to deeply explore mathematics. After describing the general class set-up and pedagogy, Julianna tells her perspective as a student in the class. The rest of the paper explains the mathematics discovered by the class in Fall 2016 and Julianna Campbell's independent study in Spring 2017. How many non-equivalent ribbon patterns are there, given the number of dancers and number of colours? [GRAPHICS] .

Keywords: Maypole dancing; mathematics for liberal arts; discovering the Art of Mathematics; inquiry-based learning; patterns

DOI: 10.1080/17513472.2018.1513231

Source：JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS AND THE ARTS

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