Part of MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare Project, that provides materials from MIT classes to the public on the web, this site provides models for a design studio for housing, with a significant topic being compensating...

A unit on architecture, divided into the tangible and intangible aspects of architecture: space, light, proportion, and the emotional impact that a building has upon a person; and geometry and other mathematical concepts...

A unit about architecture and its unique relation to mathematics, incorporating the study of such mathematical concepts as ratio, proportion, scales, symmetry, and similarity, and providing definitions and explanations...

To produce structures that are functional as well as models of architectural beauty, designers must apply principles of mathematics in their work. Scale drawings, commonly known as plans, are used as patterns in the...

Java applets: an area "workshop," which explains area and division by converting numbers in area units; an architect's toy blocks, with gravity; connecting and programming elementary logic (in the form of pipes with...

Furthers interdisciplinary education relating the arts, mathematics, and architecture. Conferences and membership information.

A unit designed for middle to high school level math teachers who want to illustrate the principles of scaling, ratio, and proportion in a concrete way through model building, and for science teachers who want to teach...

A unit designed to improve students' understanding and appreciation of basic geometric shapes used in architecture. It describes various plane geometric figures and discusses in detail the properties of several of these...

Lessons that include deriving formulas for volume by building rectangular prisms, identifying geometric solids by constructing cubes, tetrahedrons, and octahedrons, and identifying geometric patterns found in ceiling and...

An enrichment unit in basic geometry and symmetry, including translation, tessellation and reflection, ideas on line designs and knot designs for teaching lines and line segments, and ideas for daisy designs to teach the...