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Using Cartoons To Make Connections And Enrich Mathematics, Janet St. Clair
Using Cartoons To Make Connections And Enrich Mathematics, Janet St. Clair
Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference (2017-2019)
The article discusses the integration of cartoons into a finite mathematics college course. However, cartoon integration is appropriate for any educational level STEM course. Students and the author used an online comic strip creator, MakeBeliefsComix.com, to create cartoons that connected concepts to the real world and history. Following Cho, Osborne, and Sanders (2015), students wrote a paragraph about their cartoon and its mathematics. In addition to connecting mathematics to art and writing and unearthing students’ creative side, cartoons helped show the humanistic side of mathematics and promote communication and excitement about mathematics. The author developed a rubric to evaluate students’ …