After reading others' suggestions here, it occurs to me that I may have missed where the age of the target students was mentioned. I gave suggestions that would be appropriate for older students; it appears that most here gave suggestions suitable for elementary or middle school. So, perhaps it would have been more helpful if we were told the age of the students in question. Andrew On 03/10/2010 12:26 PM, Andrew Sharpe wrote: > There is (or can be) quite a bit of math in photography. Inverse square > law, field of view, depth of field including the circle of confusion, > the Scheimpflug principle, focal length changes with diopters, f-stop > calculations for bellows use, etc. Just look on the web for photography > formulas (or formulae), and I think you'd find everything you want. > > Andrew > > > On 3/10/2010, "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- http://andrewsharpe.com
