Orienting Martian Math teachers

[kirby urner]

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2015/10/so-you-wanna-be-martian-math-teacher.html

I put up this new Youtube yesterday as a way of gluing

together some websites and helping teachers interested

in straying from the beaten path a bit.

Martian Math, the way I've spun it, is thinly disguised

Bucky Fuller style geometry wherein we use a tetrahedron

(simplex) for 3rd power modeling and unit volume.

Even if said geometry is hardly front burner in any standard

mathematics curriculum, it's actually of benefit to literature

and history teachers to fill in some blanks in their narrative.

Fuller's ideas continue to exert influence and it helps to

understand even popular culture to get to a deeper level

than mere cliches.  As I mention towards the end of the

video, this is mostly familiar stuff, mathematics we encounter

anyway, just seen from an unfamiliar angle.

Kirby