On Wed, March 10, 2010 07:57, jonathan turner wrote: > I've been asked to do some work in a school that involves using > photography > to help with learning maths. I'm fairly hopeless at maths so am very > unsure > of how to proceed. > > The project is centred around the construction of a new library building, > which we are going to take pictures of, but have to find some sort of > mathematical aspect to the photography to help with their learning. > > I was thinking of something to do with symmetry/geometry etc but other > than > that have really no clue as to how to bring mathematical concepts into it. > Obviously mathematics and photography are two quite different disciplines, > I'm sure there must be plenty of crossover points but I'm really > struggling > to see them. For example, trying to determine real-world dimensions based on photographs. For simple square-on shots, that gets you basic ratios. For anything else, that gets you perspective calculations (more complex ratios) as well. However, it's easy enough to go in with a tape measure to your own library; makes this an obviously-artificial exercise, which aren't the best for motivating students. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
