### Record ValueofCraft:: [[Creative value of craft]] ### Outline Craft has a valuable role in strengthening creative thinking across STEM. Disciplines within the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) often require visual and spatial imagination, hand-eye co-ordination, skills with making and interpreting sketches. “…there is a compelling statistical correlation between the highest levels of creative success and entrepreneurial endeavours in mathematics, science and engineering and persistent participation in arts and crafts from childhood through professional training and into career years.” (Root-Bernstein, 2015)  An experimental approach to teaching mathematics led New Zealand-based Mathematician Dr Jeanette McLeod to use craft to stimulate an interest in mathematics as a subject of beauty and imagination. Maths Craft New Zealand demonstrates the relationship between playfulness, creativity and craft in mathematics by encouraging the public to engage in a range of mathematical activities through the medium of craft. Participants make a Möbius strip or fold an origami octahedron and through this hands-on activity they unwittingly start to think like a mathematician. %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ```dataview list summary from [[Claim - Craft skills can strengthen creativity in STEM]] where contains(file.path,"Warp") ``` %% - [[Warp/Maths Craft New Zealand - An Unexpected Journey.md|Maths Craft New Zealand - An Unexpected Journey]]: Maths Craft New Zealand successfully teach maths through the medium of craft. %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%