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'Mondrian Cuisenaire by Su_G' in a duvet-cover mockup (c/o Roostery)
Maths never made any sense to me... until the "New Maths" and Cuisenaire rods. This is my homage to my best math teachers, the "New Maths", Cuisenaire rods, and Mondrian (and was my entry in Spoonflower's Math Contest) now turned into a quilt cover!
Line art.
© Su Schaefer 2018
With plenty of space to fill in your own combinations, originally I thought this could make a fun activity for young people starting to learn mathematics - but I'm not sure the bed linen is quite the place for that...
Better to see in the close up: ’Mondrian Cuisenaire by Su_G' as fabric at Spoonflower
See ’Mondrian Cuisenaire by Su_G' as bedding, place mats, cushions, and various other soft furnishings @ Roostery
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Augustus Chapman Allen was born to Roland and Sarah (Chapman) Allen in Canaseraga, New York on July 4, 1806. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, New York, where he taught mathematics until 1827. That year he became a bookkeeper for the H. and H. Canfield Company, in which he and his brother John Kirby Allen bought an interest. A.C. Allen married Charlotte M. Baldwin (1805-1895) on May 3, 1831. The next year, the brothers left the firm and moved to San Augustine, relocating to Nacogdoches the following year. From there, they worked with others in land speculation and provided, at their own expense, a ship called the Brutus for transporting troops and supplies during the Texas Revolution.
After Texas won its independence in 1836, the Allen brothers purchased land along Buffalo Bayou not far from Harrisburg, which had been substantially damaged during the war. The Allens planned a new town named for Sam Houston. Offering it to the fledgling Texas government as a capital. The Texas Congress accepted the proposal and held the first session in Houston in May 1837. That year, the Allens were joined by their parents, four brothers and a sister. On August 15, 1838, J.K. Allen died from a fever.
In the 1840s, A.C. Allen moved to Mexico. There, he served as U.S. Consul for the ports of Tehuantepec and Minotitlan, and was engaged in various business enterprises in 1863. Allen traveled to Washington, D.C., where he contracted pneumonia. He died there at the Willard Hotel on January 11, 1864. Unable to have his body returned to Houston, his widow Charlotte had him buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. He is remembered today as a co-founder of the city of Houston. (2006) (Marker No. 13821)
In the mathematics focused Chancellor’s Day workshop, Illustrating the Common Core, led by Kristen Umland, Co-chair of Illustrative Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico, teachers had the opportunity to take a deep dive into the Common Core and collaborate on ways to embed Common Core-aligned learning tasks into their daily lesson planning.
Today is Chancellor's Day in New York City. We hosted two workshops here at the MƒA offices for our teachers: Microscopic Explorations Aboard BioBus with Executive Director of BioBus Ben Dubin-Thaler and Illustrating the Common Core with Kristen Umland, Co-chair of Illustrative Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico.
In this workshop Microscopic Explorations Aboard BioBus, Executive Director of BioBus Ben Dubin-Thaler took MƒA teachers aboard the BioBus, a high-tech laboratory on wheels, where they met Daphnia, a Central Park pond-water crustacean that lays bare the secrets of biology, watched paint dry, and learned about experiments for their classrooms.
Alonzo Marion Story (1882-1966) was born in New Orleans to parents John and Mary Story. He attended public schools and graduated from Louisiana's Leland College before doing post-graduate work in Texas and Colorado. Story came to Texas at the age of 21 and taught mathematics in Midway. He also served as a mail clerk before moving in 1912 to Palestine, where he taught math at Lincoln High School, the school for African American students. He taught there until 1917, when he moved to Austin to be principal of the state's Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for African Americans.
In 1924, Story was offered a job as principal in Dallas. Instead, he returned to Palestine's Lincoln High School, where he taught math and served as principal. Beloved and respected, Story stayed until retiring in 1949, teaching his last years with no eyesight. After retirement, he tutored from his home.
In 1953, the school district opened a new facility and named it Alonzo Marion Story High School in honor of the revered educator. After desegregation, the school became a junior high and then an elementary school before being destroyed by a tornado in 1987. In 1990, the district built a new school named for him.
Story dedicated his life to education. In addition to his roles as teacher and principal, he was director of religious education at West Union Baptist Church and served on the executive committee of the Texas State Teachers Association and as vice president of the East Texas Teachers Association. His immeasurable contributions to Palestine are reflected in the community's commemoration of his life. (2002) (Marker No. 12859)