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    This 4-week unit for grade 12 TOK class focuses on exploring the relationships between math and art and their contributions to knowledge. Students will deepen their understanding of how math and art shape experiences and are interconnected with other areas through guest speakers, a documentary film, and class discussions. The unit aims to prompt students to question objective and subjective truth in math and art and account for how these disciplines expand knowledge. Assessment will involve working on the final Individual Oral and Extended Essay, while guiding questions are provided to stimulate inquiry into topics like the nature of math and art and their interpretations.

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    This 4-week unit for grade 12 TOK class focuses on exploring the relationships between math and art and their contributions to knowledge. Students will deepen their understanding of how math and art shape experiences and are interconnected with other areas through guest speakers, a documentary film, and class discussions. The unit aims to prompt students to question objective and subjective truth in math and art and account for how these disciplines expand knowledge. Assessment will involve working on the final Individual Oral and Extended Essay, while guiding questions are provided to stimulate inquiry into topics like the nature of math and art and their interpretations.

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    This 4-week unit for grade 12 TOK class focuses on exploring the relationships between math and art and their contributions to knowledge. Students will deepen their understanding of how math and art shape experiences and are interconnected with other areas through guest speakers, a documentary film, and class discussions. The unit aims to prompt students to question objective and subjective truth in math and art and account for how these disciplines expand knowledge. Assessment will involve working on the final Individual Oral and Extended Essay, while guiding questions are provided to stimulate inquiry into topics like the nature of math and art and their interpretations.

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    Unit: Math & Art

    Subject: TOK

    Grade: 12
    Quarter: 2-3

    Time Required: 4 weeks

    Date Updated: June 2008

    Objectives:

    Students will be able to account for how Math and Art contribute to our growing
    knowledge of the world.

    Students will be able to discuss and further question the relationship of objective
    and subjective truth with respect to Math and Art.

    Students will have a deeper understanding of how Math and Art shape our
    experience of the world around us.

    Students become familiar with the interconnectedness of Math and Art with other
    areas of knowledge.

    Teaching\Learning Activities:

    Guest speakers from both Math and Art departments.


    Movie: BBC How Art made the World
    Class discussion.

    Assessment Tasks:

    NA: Time needed to work on Final IA and EA

    Resources:

    Woolman. Ways of Knowing


    Vivek Bammi 2006 Workshop Booklet Articles
    Craig Boyce 2001 Workshop Booklet Articles
    See digital folder for more articles and relevant www links.

    Guiding Questions:

    Learner Profile Links:

    Inquirers : questioning their own definitions of what is good and bad art.

    Knowledgeable: connecting scientific theories with daily life.

    Thinkers: making differentiations between description and explanation.

    Communicators: able to make on the spot contributions in class discussion

    Open-minded: sensitive to the their bias and the bias of others

    Reflective: able to overcome impulse thinking and develop logical perspectives.

    Risk Takers: willing to adopt new perceptions\roles of Art and Math

    Teacher: Mr. Leland

    Is mathematics better defined by its method or by its subject matter?


    In the light of the questions above, is mathematics invented or discovered?
    Mathematicians marvel at some of the deep connections between disparate parts
    of their subject.
    Is this evidence for a simple underlying mathematical reality?
    What does it mean to say that mathematics can be regarded as a formal game
    devoid of intrinsic meaning?
    What does it mean to say that mathematics is an axiomatic system?
    Does art have to have meaning? Conversely, if something is meaningless, can it
    be art?
    Is a work of art enlarged or diminished by interpretation? What makes something
    a good or bad interpretation?
    Can anything be art? Are there limits to what is acceptable in art? Who decides?

    Other notes:

    I usually do this unit last so that students can better appreciate the comparisons
    and contrasts between Art and Math.

    During this unit I usually assign no additional assignments so that students can
    work on their final Oral presentation and TOK Essay.

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