You’re doing a project, creating something new, or repairing something old. Can math help? We’ll see!
Geometry is the study of shapes and relationships, proportions, and perspectives. Half of each two-hour class will be devoted to exploring the traditional geometry of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Then, participants will use what they are learning in hands-on art, craft, and building projects, to be completed in the second hour of each class. Before the six-week course ends, participants will experience a taste of the beauty of non-Euclidean geometry through the work of Buckminster Fuller and Benoit Mandelbrodt.
As with the other classes in Rashi Nessen’s “Math For the Fun of It” series, this class welcomes both inexperienced and experienced students. No fear here!
Instructor Rashi Nessen has degrees from Yale and Stanford, but he learned to have fun with Geometry while he was an elementary school math teacher at Bridge School in Middlebury, Vermont, for 30 years. His greatest enjoyment was teaching beginning and more advanced students to approach Math with curiosity, creativity, and fun.
Instructor Susan Borg received her degree from Middlebury College, where she also served after graduation as an Instructor of Experiential Anatomy and of Music Theory. Susan’s interest in pattern, proportion, and perspective in music and anatomy informs her enjoyment of crafts, especially crocheting and quilting.