String art

Hands-on learning has endless possibilities when it comes to geometry. A new teacher on campus, Ms. Miller, is incorporating as much hands-on learning as she can into the geometry curriculum that she teaches.

In addition to identifying different types of angles around the campus that the students divided into a coordinate plane, her classes have also completed a project of string art. With interactive use of their iPads, cadets chose and downloaded patterns of designs that they would create on a 6″x6″ block of wood. Students  were to identify very specific measurements, create the pattern on paper, and then transfer the design onto their wood.

The pattern was then identified by the students placing nails into their wood. With using symmetry, measurement, patterns and shapes, the students used string to  make their  designs unique and an appealing piece of art. The metric positions at which the strings intersect is what gives the string art its unique appearance.