Creative Assignment

Two Hundred Seventy Seventh Post: Creative Assignment

At the school here I saw the 5th grade class got an assignment to do a math booklet. Just a simple book of folded paper. Each to be written as it was one of those historic findings from the past. Their assignment is to create their own math shape or reinvent a fake history of how a shape was discovered. Then they must find a use for this shape in today’s world.

Sounds like a fun assignment. And it makes you wonder how did those basic shapes ever get invented. They go back beyond recorded history. How long would it take to rediscover them if they hadn’t been learned in elementary school? Some are common sense such as a circle. But if you study a circle you know that it has some powerful and complex formulas. Is it the formula that created the shape or the shape that was discovered that just by coincidence that those formulas exist? After all, we found the formulas to fit the shape. Or did we? I think there is much more to it than that.

Until the mystery is revealed... May the Creative Force be with You