Spinning Arms in Motion: Exploring Mathematics within the Art of Figure Skating

Year: 2016 Authors: Tetyana Berezovski; Diana Cheng; Rachel Damiano

Core claim

Figure skating arm motion offers a rich modeling context for teaching proportional reasoning, trigonometry, geometry, and regression with dynamic animations.

Topics

mathematical modeling, figure skating, dynamic geometry, educational workshop

Domains

proportional reasoning, trigonometry, circular geometry, regression, figure skating, sports aesthetics, kinesthetic art

Methods

bird’s-eye-view modeling, Geometer’s Sketchpad animations, scatterplot analysis, curve fitting

Media

dynamic animations, GSP files, figure diagram, stopwatch

Source status

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