Today I welcome you to a shorter entry of the blog, because this week I'm recovering from surgery. I've talked to my classmates about the clases I've missed, and they've told me some things that have been discussed.
For example, fractals have been mentioned, and well, everything I know about fractals I've learned from a musical movie that could be an interesting tool to engage primary school students: Disney's Frozen.
In the lyrics of the modern classic Let It Go in english, the character of Elsa, voiced by Broadway star Idina Menzel, says "My power flurries through the air into the ground/My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around", and in the animated movie, when the Snow Queen uses her power to build herself a castle, the way everything is drawn is very geometric, mostly to help convey the icy magic.
The way she builds the lamp as something that could keep endlessly expanding makes a viewer that is learning geometry, like me or our future students, make better sense of the concept of fractals.
I'll leave you with this, and until next time, break a leg!
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