Week 2 : Math in the Garden

Today, we spent the whole day in the garden discovering elements of math using varieties of methods.

We learned how to track the pathway of the sun by using bodily movements. This was easy to follow along and understand through motor experience.

This practice helped us understand how the changes of the seasons and the length of daylight in the northern/southern hemispheres are dependent on the pathways of the sun.

We first used our arms to distinguish the direction of the earth as it faces the sun.

Then, we created motions with our hands and arms to show where the sun would begin, reach its peak point, and come down.

We also looked at the ways of how we could incorporate creative/artistic methods (for example, this light box photography) to represent the solar pathways throughout a long period of time.