April 20, 2017
Kuopio, Finland
STEAM Multidisciplinary Learning Day
for Teachers of All Subjects
Science-Technology-Engineering-Arts and Mathematics in the Play!
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Program
8.30-9.00 - Arrival
9.00-10.30 - Workshop 1.
10.30-10.45- Coffee Break
10.45-12.15 - Workshop 2.
12.15-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.00 – Teachers’ STEAM Forum moderated by Christopher Brownell (Fresno Pacific
University, USA) & Presentation by Kristóf Fenyvesi (University of Jyväskylä)
15.00-15.30 – Closing Presentation by Osmo Pekonen (University of Jyväskylä)
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9.00-10.30: Workshop 1; 10.45-12.15: Workshop 2: LET’S BUILD UP YOUR GIANT DOME! LET’S BUILD UP
OUR COMMUNITY!
with researcher of STEAM Learning, Kristóf Fenyvesi, mathematician and science historian Osmo
Pekonen (University of Jyväskylä); Mathematics & STEM Education Program Director, Chris Brownell
(Fresno Pacific University)
Help us to figure out how to build up Experience Workshop's Collaborative Learning Space, a 3
meters high, 5 meters wide geodesic dome from almost 1000 separate modules! We will use the
Korean 4Dframe for building!
The result will be a structurally similar
construction, like the wireframe of the world
largest ice dome, which was realized in
Finland in 2014 by the Dutch architect Arno
Pronk and his international team.
While some groups are
working on the dome,
let's look around and
further explore the
fun-world
of
maths&arts through
play, collaborative problem-solving & iterative design.
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Welcome to
Experience
Workshop’s Learning
Space!
Walk around or sit
down on caraWONGA’s
mathe-magical carpets
and immerse into some
wonderful adventures
into the infinite realm of
playful creativity and
mathematical art…
Math, Physics, and Simple Toys, come together in STEAM with Christopher Brownell (Fresno
Pacific University, USA)
Using small toys, or object easily
acquired, that children have enjoyed the
world over, we can examine some basic
properties of centripetal motion or
gravitation from physics, and the
mathematics of multi-dimensions.
Participants will make their own
samples, learn to craft them with
children, and examine the scientific and
mathematical principles behind them.
“Presently my work is with both inservice and pre-service STEM teachers.
My teaching focuses on providing them with content rich courses that challenge paradigms and ask
them to change their frame of reference. My research interests lie in how altering teachers’
frameworks can improve the overall learning experience of students in the K-12 system with regards
to STEM subjects. I have an abiding interest in the incorporation of the Arts into this study as well
and as such also do research on what is known as STEAM.” (Christopher Brownell)
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Gondos ScienTiles are beautiful results of
punctual scientific design and passionate
artistic creation. Let’s discover together the
simple, but elegant geometrical procedures
behind these complex and colourful
patterns! Do you feel puzzled? Do not
worry… Just take your time and take a
closer look to the tricky shapes, created by
the tricky Hungarian designer, Gábor
Gondos!
The best way to learn is to have fun while you
learn. The Hungarian Jomili Cubes from László
Lukovics are great examples of this. There are
only 8 different types of modules in the set, but
these few simple cubes can be your tool to create
a masterpiece. Jomili proves that creating
something great requires logic and some patience
to capture all that creativity.
We will have a lot of ITSPHUN pieces and
invite everybody to put them together
into something great! Big ideas born
from small seeds of creativity. Build your
own creations or make Platonic or
Archimedean solids.
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With Lux Blox, brainy builders are now free to
make structures that curve, bend, and move. By
using Lux’s futuristic modules, you really can
create everything from scientific models in
geometry, chemistry, physics and biology to the
complex
structures
of
engineering,
architecture, contemporary design or a funny
robot based on your unlimited fantasy.
MOLECULAR FOOTBALL & NANO-BASKETBALL with 4Dframe Construction Tool
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Let’s Build Bridges Between Mathematics and Arts – Curate Your Own Experience Workshop
Math-Art Exhibit!
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) integration in learning
represents a dynamically developing, but largely unexplored field. We wish to open our growing
collection of mathematically inspired artworks, educational tools and other resources for
children, families, and teachers to provide a snapshot of the fantastic potentials in collaboration
and merging different fields. The collection is based on Bridges Finland 2016’s art exhibition,
where Artists from
Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, East Asia,
Australia, and North
and South America
were
represented.
Artists drew inspiration
from the mathematics
of fractals, polyhedra,
non-Euclidean and fourdimensional geometry,
tiling, knot theory,
number theory, and
more.
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14.00-15.00 Synergies in Action! Experience Workshop for Multidisciplinary Learning
presentation by Kristóf Fenyvesi and Teachers’ STEAM Forum
>>> Play, Interact, Cooperate, Discover, and
Experience! The Experience Workshop – Movement
for the Experience-Oriented Education of
Mathematics and Arts has started in 2008. We are
most active in Finland and Hungary as a
collaborative effort of mathematicians, artists,
teachers, parents and children. We have organized
various math-art-education events and interactive
exhibitions, workshops, seminars and trainings all
over in Europe, Asia and America. Over the years,
more than 30,000 people participated in our events.
Experience Workshop’s international network and
community has hundreds of active members like teachers of various subjects, artists, scholars, craftsmen
and toymakers from Finland, Hungary and other countries all around the world.
>>> Experience Workshop experiments with various educational approaches to give opportunity to learn
mathematics through the arts, and to make art with mathematics. Our aim is to involve the children,
teachers, and families into a vibrant and creative dialogue between the mathematical and artistic way of
looking at our world.
>>> Experience Workshop’s main research interests involve, but not limited to STEM and STEAM
education; inquiry-based, cooperative, playful and experience-oriented mathematics education;
connecting problem-solving processes in science and art education; connecting hands-on activities and
digital modeling in mathematics, science, art and design education; science&art connections in learning;
phenomenon-based learning and co-teaching; inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary management and transcurricular leadership in education.
>>> Experience Workshop Movement publishes various kind of printed and on-line resources for teachers,
parents and students: books, apps, science and art albums, teacher resources and scientific articles. Most
of our publications and resources are open-access. Download one of our latest hand-book for teachers
and GeoGebra app-collection from www.vismath.ektf.hu/exercisebook
>>> Experience Workshop established International Traveling Exhibitions of Mathematical Art in Hungary
and in Finland, which can travel with Experience Workshop’s events. The collection includes artworks,
scientific modelling tools, math-art puzzles, and other spectacular objects, which have a key-role at
Experience Workshop’s events.
Contact: [email protected] / Website: www.experienceworkshop.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/experienceworkshop.math.art
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15.00-15.30 Finland 100. What our past can offer for our generations of the future? Potentials in
the History of Finnish Science, Mathematics and Arts for Education. Closing presentation by
Osmo Pekonen.
Dr. Osmo Pekonen as the French mathematician Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (left) and Dr. Johan Stén as the
Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (right) during their joint expedition in Lapland 1736-1737.
Osmo Pekonen is a docent of history of science. He has also been much involved in
popularization of mathematics, e.g., through two movies, one on the life of Rolf Nevanlinna
(1895-1980) and another on the French mathematician Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (16981759) and his famous trip to Lapland. He will review some highlights of history of mathematics in
Finland, emphasizing aspects that may have motivational impact in school teaching of
mathematics. The lecture will be in Finnish.
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CONTACT
Experience Workshop’s Director:
Dr. Kristóf Fenyvesi
(University of Jyväskylä – Bridges Organization – International Symmetry Association)
Experience Workshop Finland’s Scientific Coordinator:
Dr. Osmo Pekonen
(University of Jyväskylä)
Phone: +358 40 805 33 24
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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