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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 34, Number 3, pages 281-295 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2023_3_281

NEOPLASTICISM IS MATHEMATICS

Petar Mladinić^1*, Nikol Radović²

¹ Croatian Association of Teacher Researchers (HUNI), Zagreb, Croatia.
Email: petar.mladinic1@zg.ht.hr

² Universtiy of Zagreb Faculty of Geodesy, Fra Andrije Kačića Miošića 26, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Email: nradovic@geof.unizg.hr

^* corresponding author

Abstract: Can we combine artistic creativity with mathematical and geometric thinking? Can we connect mathematics and geometry with art/neoplastic? In our paper we will present some activities that can be integrated in the classroom using the dynamic software Sketchpad as a tool for elementary and high school age students. They can also be presented to mathematics teachers to give them new ideas for teaching with a different perspective on mathematics and art. This work is a proof that neoplasticity is mathematics.

Keywords: neoplasticism, mathematics, geometry, teaching, Sketchpad

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