Dancing Euclidean Proofs

One of the things that made me to stop and think was that mathematic can be performative and expressed as a temporal beauty of dance. Many people consider mathematic as purely abstract  and requires lots of practices and thinking processes by our hand and paper. After watching video and article, I could think that it can also involve our body and experience as part of learning. 

Another thing that I thought was that dancing Euclidean proof can help students to internalize and mental recreation of proof. By performing dance, students need to make their decision, practice a dance and memorize the steps. This process will improve their understanding of the Euclidean proof. 

I could experience this as well when I did ‘dancing Euclidean proof’ in class. I could understand the proof well by planning and practicing the dance performance with my group members. Moreover, I could enjoy and be engaged and this proof became memorable for me. 

Secondary school students might feel bored in math class as there are limited activities that students can do compared to other subject. This kind of activity will bring students to be motivated as they are actually moving their body and mind as a learning process. Moreover, by collaborating with group members, the anxiety of math can be decreased to students who do not enjoy studying math. 

One possible challenge for this activity can be a time consume. There are many topics in math that need to be covered in class, and I have seen few lessons being skipped due to lack of time to cover all the lessons in math class. This activity might take few classes in secondary math classroom. I am worried if students can not learn other important lessons as they have spent times for doing this activity.