Jamie York’s Phi House Story
In 2023, I got to build what I call a math teacher’s geometric dream house. It’s in the form of a rhombic triacontahedron, a form that my 8th grade students might recognize from the geometry block in which we study Platonic and Archimedean solids. The Waldorf geometry curriculum is one of the many ways that we develop the imagination of the students. The 8th grade geometry curriculum allows the students (through working with both paper and clay) to experience the metamorphosis of form.
The Higher Purpose of Teaching Mathematics – Video Lecture by Jamie York
How many times have you heard a student say, “Why do I have to really learn this? Why do I have to learn this math?” We’re led to believe math is something of a language or a skill that you’d use later. That math, in and of itself, isn’t meaningful. I disagree with that.
