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Informed Misuse: Hybrid Pedagogies for Architects and Mathematicians

By M J Sieira

Research Open House 2020

Maria Sieira
Alexander Creem, MS Arch ’22
School of Architecture, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
K-12 Seed Grantee 2019-2020

Informed Misuse: Hybrid Pedagogies for Architects and Mathematicians is the collaboration between an architect and a mathematician. We are both in disciplines that appear to demand certainty—a building must stand up; a sum must add up, but the deeper and better work in both fields is more nuanced than the certainty of a correct answer. Our common ground is project-based pedagogy. We bring architecture into a middle school math curriculum, and new teaching practices develop into new paradigms for school design. Our focus group consists of 22 young mathematicians in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

*Melissa Singer, Math Teacher, Brooklyn School of Inquiry, Co-Investigator

*New York City Public School 686

  • M J Sieira

    MJ Sieira is an architect and an independent scholar who studies social, political, and cultural aspects of our living environment through film, literature, design, theater, and installation art. Sieira has…