Can Colorful Math Help Students Learn Better?

Described as “<a href="https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/oliver-byrne-the-matisse-of-mathematics-conclusion-and-about-the-authors" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a true Matisse of mathematics</a>,” <a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Byrne/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Oliver Byrne</a> (1810–1880) was an eccentric Irish civil engineer and mathematician. He is best known for his gorgeous, and highly colorful, edition of Euclid’s Elements, published in 1847. Compared to other editions of Euclid’s famous work, Byrne’s is unique. Instead of using letters to name lines and angles, he uses color to allow geometric parts “<a href="https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksel00byrn/page/viii/mode/2up" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">to name themselves.</a>” In the Preface, Byrne shows how his approach differs from the traditional one by listing <a href="https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksel00byrn/page/x/mode/2up" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">properties of a right-angled triangle</a> first in the traditional way, and then in his own unique style. I have condensed part of his comparison in the figure below: <a href="https://www.cantorsparadise.com/can-colorful-math-help-students-learn-better-d159d6f3bd78">Read More</a>