Arts and Magic Square Symmetries
Simone Brasili and Dominik Chapman

Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 445–448
Short Papers

Abstract

The arts have great potential in education. They enhance reasoning abilities, intuition, perception, inventiveness, creativity, problem-solving skills, and expression, especially in primary school. Here we report connections between arts and magic square symmetries, particularly the unifying structures of 3x3 magic squares. First, we explore the application of different symmetries visualisation in education. Then, we extend the potential of the visualisation of magic square symmetries into the creation of multiplication tables and using different media. It appears that the visualisation using different media and manipulative games is a particularly efficient way for representing magic square symmetries to primary school pupils.

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