Evolution
1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge; Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.
Max Cohen, Pi, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, 1998
I'm strongly convinced that mathematics is a vital tool of evolution in modern society. In this serie, I'm interested into the complexity to transfer knowledge and how it is taught to the next generation. I’m particularly touched by the different capacities of abstraction, ways to count, methods of reflection, problems and their techniques as well as particular challenges. As a former primary teacher, I felt a real commitment and engagement to education, the only way our civilization can advance and evolve.
Learning directly in front of a human being , - person, teacher, tutor, mentor or professor, is much more richer than […]
[…] a screen, tablet, or computer. This project is also an ode to former teachers who taught me to love curiosity, in a permanent challenge of my status quo and hence, to discover what surrounds me.
These set of picture where taken in Lyon, France, in late 2011, before Instagram, Chat GPT or learning apps. Nowadays, teaching becomes a real challenge for pupils as well as teachers due mainly of lack of motivation, concentration, (im)patiente or useless (immediate) interest in mathematics.