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Digital Mathematical Performance

Blossoms

Marcelo Borba, Janette Hughes, George Gadanidis, and Ricardo Scucuglia

Performance takes place in the theatre, at poetry readings and on the screen. What if as mathematicians, as math educators, or as students of mathematics we moved outside of the domain of assessment (where performance takes on a different meaning) and used an artistic lens to look at how we ‘perform’ mathematics? If we view mathematics (doing, teaching, learning) as embodied performance, what do we see differently?

Thinking of mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning as performance may help to destabilize and reorganize our thinking about what it means to do and teach mathematics with technology.

Papers

Gadanidis, G., Borba, M. & Hughes, J. (coming soon). Students as performance mathematicians.

Gadanidis, G. & Borba, M. (forthcoming). Our lives as performance mathematicians. For the Learning of Mathematics.

Scucuglia, R. & Borba, M. (2007). Performance Matemática Digital: criando photo stories em Educação Matemática. IX Encontro Nacional de Educação Matemática (ENEM - 2007). UNI-BH – Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte: Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. (read the English translation)

Borba, M. (2007). Humans with Media: a performance collective in the classroom? Keynote Address at the Fields Symposium on Digital Mathematical Performance, June 2006.

Gadanidis, G.(2007). Imagination and Digital Mathematical Performance. Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, University of Calgary, 79-86.

Gerofsky, S. (2006). Performance space & time. In Gadanidis, G. & C. Hoogland (Eds.) Digital Mathematical Performance - Proceedings of a Fields Institute Symposium.

Gadanidis, G. (2006). Exploring Digital Mathematical Performance in an Online Teacher Education Setting. The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education 17th International Conference, Orlando, Florida, 3726-3731.