'Creative Mathematician' Transforms Student Errors into 'Sartorial Celebration'

摘要

Life-changing inspiration struck Diarra Bousso during a late-night slog through a stack of student papers. It was 2018, and in her first few months as a high school math teacher the longtime artist had found that grading and lesson planning left her without the time-or the energy-to draw. Faced one evening with a sheaf of student attempts at graphing linear, absolute value, and quadratic functions, she began to see her pupils' misplaced vertices1 and wonky symmetries differently.