Sewing a skirt: a design for an interdisciplinary activity in mathematics and arts & crafts

Uffe Thomas Jankvist; Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen; Line Rønn Shakoor

Sewing a skirt: a design for an interdisciplinary activity in mathematics and arts & crafts

Uffe Thomas Jankvist, Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen, Line Rønn Shakoor

Danish School of Education - Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies, Emdrup

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe and analyze the design of a teaching and learning activity between mathematics and arts & crafts, centered around the making of a skirt. A group of 8thgrade girls is encouraged to make a skirt that they would actually want to wear and hence become engaged in a process of expressing themselves, making choices of taste, but also taking measures of their own bodies, feelingthe fabric and observing drafts in the mirror before refinement. In this process, they activate mathematics when needed, performing several shifts between different representational registers. In particular, we focus our analysis on their shifts between representations in two and three dimensions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MACAS in the digital era : proceedings of the 2019 MACAS symposium, Montreal, Quebec
Editors	Annie Savard, Rebecca Pearce
Number of pages	13
Place of publication	Quebec
Publisher	McGill Faculty of Education
Publication date	2020
Pages	26-38
ISBN (Print)	978-1-77247-022-2
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	MACAS 2019: Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences - McGill University, Montreal, Canada Duration: 18 Jun 2019 → 21 Jun 2019 https://mcgill.ca/macas2019/about-macas

Conference

Conference	MACAS 2019
Location	McGill University,
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	18/06/2019 → 21/06/2019
Internet address	https://mcgill.ca/macas2019/about-macas

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Skirt Making as an Open School, Interdisciplinary Material Activity in Mathematics, Arts and Crafts
Knudsen, L. E. D., Jankvist, U. T. & Shakoor, L. R., 2022, Mathematics and Its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS): 15 Years of Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. Michelsen, C., Beckmann, A., Freiman, V., Jankvist, U. T. & Savard, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 487-499 (Mathematics Education in the Digital Era, Vol. 19).
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Open Access
Åben skole er en pædagogisk humlebi: et casestudie af undervisningsdifferentiering uden at kende elevernes forudsætning
Knudsen, L. E. D., Jun 2021, In: Sammenlignende Fagdidaktik. 2021, 6, p. 71-94 24 p.
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Jeg kan skabe - på Copenhagen Contemporary: Et projekt om æstetiske læreprocesser i en modtageklasse
Knudsen, L. E. D. & Lassen, K. R., 2021, Copenhagen Contemporary. 28 p.
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Knudsen, L. E. D.
21/05/2021
2 Media contributions
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Læreren skal spille en tydelig rolle i den åbne skole
Knudsen, L. E. D.
21/09/2020
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Jankvist, UT , Knudsen, LED & Shakoor, LR 2020, Sewing a skirt: a design for an interdisciplinary activity in mathematics and arts & crafts. in A Savard & R Pearce (eds), MACAS in the digital era: proceedings of the 2019 MACAS symposium, Montreal, Quebec. McGill Faculty of Education, Quebec , pp. 26-38, MACAS 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 18/06/2019. <http://mcgill.ca/macas2019/proceedings>

Sewing a skirt: a design for an interdisciplinary activity in mathematics and arts & crafts. / Jankvist, Uffe Thomas ; Knudsen, Lars Emmerik Damgaard; Shakoor, Line Rønn.
MACAS in the digital era: proceedings of the 2019 MACAS symposium, Montreal, Quebec. ed. / Annie Savard; Rebecca Pearce. Quebec : McGill Faculty of Education, 2020. p. 26-38.

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Sewing a skirt: a design for an interdisciplinary activity in mathematics and arts & crafts

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Skirt Making as an Open School, Interdisciplinary Material Activity in Mathematics, Arts and Crafts

Åben skole er en pædagogisk humlebi: et casestudie af undervisningsdifferentiering uden at kende elevernes forudsætning

Jeg kan skabe - på Copenhagen Contemporary: Et projekt om æstetiske læreprocesser i en modtageklasse

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Nye rum for læring

Læreren skal spille en tydelig rolle i den åbne skole

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