Eva Knoll

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Eva Knoll is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education. Eva Knoll's current academic work consists of research into the mathematical elements of craft, design and visual art practices, with an emphasis on the potential application in mathematics education. In particular, she is currently leading a research group composed of a mathematician, a textile scholar, two schoolteachers, an archivist and herself. Their work is focusing on an exploration of the mathematical thinking inherent in the design, creation and appreciation of textiles. Topics include:
  • Geometry: symmetries and transformations, groups in geometry, topology
  • Number sense and patterns in numbers
  • Diagrams and their effective creation and use for communication both in mathematics and art making


Other Research and Teaching Interests

  • Mathematical Research Situations in the Classroom (RSC)
  • Research experience in pure mathematics as a learning context
  • Affect in mathematics learning
  • Creativity in and outside education
  • Interdisciplinary/integrated teaching
  • Mathematics in visual art and in crafts
  • Arts in mathematics

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    From the circle to the icosahedron
    (Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, 2000) Knoll, Eva
    The following exercise is based on experiments conducted in circular Origami. This type of paper folding allows for a completely different geometry than the square type since it lends itself very easily to the creation of shapes based on 30-60-90 degree angles. This allows for experimentation with shapes made up of equilateral triangles such as deltahedra. The results of this research were used in Annenberg sponsored activities conducted in a progressive middle school in Houston TX, as well as a workshop presented at the 1999 Bridges Conference in Winfield, KS. Not including preparatory and follow up work by the teacher, the activities in Houston were composed of two main parts, the collaborative construction of a three-yard-across, eighty-faced regular deltahedron (the Endo- Pentakis Icosi-dodecahedron) and the following exercise. The barn-raising was presented last year in Winfield, and the paper folding is the topic of this paper.