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Record W4242216950 · doi:10.5951/mtms.12.8.0480

Escher in the Classroom

2007· article· en· W4242216950 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jill Britton

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematics Teaching in the Middle School · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArt, Technology, and Culture
Canadian institutionsCamosun College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEscherCentennialMathematics educationClass (philosophy)Visual artsArt historyArtMathematicsComputer scienceEpistemologyHistoryPhilosophyArchaeologyProgramming language

Abstract

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I first read the article “Master of Tessellations: M. C. Escher 1898–1972” in 1974. I was teaching a class titled Recreational Mathematics at a junior college in Montreal at the time, and the article served as a basis of the Escherrelated material that I added to the course content. As the years passed, my knowledge of Escher and involvement with his geometric artwork grew. I spoke about Escher art at NCTM conferences; met Escher's eldest son, George, at a regional NCTM conference in Halifax; developed Escher materials for Dale Seymour publications; and gave a speech titled “Escher in the Classroom” at the International Escher Congress held in Rome, Italy, in 1998 (the centennial of Escher's birth). All of this began for me with a Mathematics Teacher article.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.424
Threshold uncertainty score0.539

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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