I am interested in using storytelling for mathematics. There are some classic stories such as "Hotel Infinity" - but the goal would be for each person to create his or her own story about a topic. Here is a (very loose) summary of my plans, so far:
- Either another human, or some software has to get people going, as far as math is concerned. The software can take the form of "interactive prompts" for each topic, based on prior mathematics education research of that topic's metaphors. For example, prompts for proportionality may have to do with "uneven sharing" (like pirates and the captain), or with "body proportions" (Vitruvian man vs. anime characters). The software will use a domain specific language to generate, basically, a mini-game that will serve as a story prompt, scaffolding the math parts but soliciting open picture and situation input from each user. - There should be all the usual social web support for sharing, commenting, expanding, embedding, ranking, tagging and so on of the resulting "game and story" objects. - There should be some way to expand metaphor collections for each topic, which will involve some basic programming - this can be implemented either by inviting everybody to program, or by inviting people to send suggestions to a team of programmers This is in the early research stages. I found people and software doing vaguely similar things, but I have not started to write detailed component descriptions. -- Cheers, MariaD I write, 'In the beginning was the Deed!' - Goethe, Faust naturalmath.com: a sketch of a social math site groups.google.com/group/naturalmath: a mailing list about math maker activities --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
