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Maths on the Move
| Published: 16th July 2010 19:24 |
Students with Caroline Bintley,Director of Dance at Brune
Park Community College, Suzanne Lewis,Project
Co-ordinator of the EBP and Andy Grice, Director of Maths
at Brune Park Community College
Over 100 students gathered at The Atrium of 1000 Lakeside in North Harbour to take part in an innovative new educational programme from Brune Park Community College entitled ‘Maths and Dance, Give it a Chance' which has been designed to demonstrate mathematical concepts through contemporary dance.
Learning about equations, trigonometry and algebra through taking part in dance workshops may seem a rather unorthodox method of teaching, but for Year 10 girls from Brune Park, Brookfield, Bridgemary and Henry Cort Community Colleges as well as Cams Hill and Portchester Community Schools, it was a new approach that had dramatic effect.
‘The combination of maths and dance might seem very bizarre, however, when you start to look closely at dance, mathematical concepts are inherent; for example use of shape, ordering of movement, and the use of parallel lines,' says Caroline Bintley, Director of Dance at Brune Park.
The day workshop, which culminated in an evening performance for family and friends of the dancers, was supported by the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Education Business Partnership. ‘We loved the concept of something really original and ground-breaking,' said Suzanne Lewis, Project Co-ordinator for the EBP. ‘It was just one of those things we simply had to get involved in.'
Girls from different schools were divided into groups of 10, each with a Dance Tutor from Brune Park's Year 11 who had finished their final exams and come back for the day.
‘Maths may be seen by some as a very dry, academic subject,' says Andy Grice, Director of Maths at Brune Park and co-founder of ‘Maths and Dance, Give it a Chance'. ‘Anything that can make students see the subject in a different way, feed their motivation and inspire them to learn is a very powerful teaching tool.'
Future events are being planned for the forthcoming year in order to maintain ‘Maths on the Move.'
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