Creativity break: What can we do to expand our creative skills?
About this video
Two speakers share ways to grow your maths and creative skills without even noticing: playing board games and baking, which use problem solving, fractions and proportions. They encourage you to connect classroom learning to real life, like sports, entertainment, politics or news, so you can transfer skills outside the classroom.
You'll be able to
- name everyday activities that use maths and creativity.
- connect something I learn in maths class to my own life.
Key words
- proportion
- A relationship where amounts grow or shrink together, like doubling every ingredient in a recipe.
- siloed
- Kept separate and cut off from other things.
- orthogonal
- Here it means unrelated or completely separate from something else.
- transfer
- Using a skill learned in one place in a new situation.
Transcript
(light upbeat music) (keyboard keys clicking)
- There are so many ways that you can expand your creative and math skills without even really realizing that you're doing it. Like for me, I'm a big board game fan and I realize that there's so many games that involve math and learning how to solve problems. And sometimes like, just when you're cooking.
I love to bake. And so I feel like I'm constantly using like fractions and learning how to do proportions, just because I'm doing things that I love. So I feel like the best way to expand your mathematical and creative skills are just doing what you love to do because probably it has some kind of math in it and some kind of creativity.
- Try to connect what you're learning to your real life. It's really easy to be in the classroom and think that it's siloed and it's orthogonal from the world around you. The more we can connect what we're learning in the classroom to our real life, either via sports or entertainment, politics, news, whatever.
The connection that you make between math and your real life will really help you appreciate the skills and the methods and find ways to transfer them outside of just the classroom alone. (light upbeat music)
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