Media tagged with: Salsa Rueda

Practicing Dame Dos in Salsa Rueda

Practicing Dame Dos in Salsa Rueda

Student practice dancing salsa rueda in a math for liberal art class. Afterwards they will investigate how to predict if and when a dancer returns to their original dance partner (dancing dame dos again and again). This investigation is the same as exploring star polygon patterns and also connects to the spirograph activities.

This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.

Whole Class Discussions: Repeat or Ask Question

Whole Class Discussions: Repeat or Ask Question

Students are investigating Salsa Rueda dancing. The question is how to predict if you will dance with every leader/follower given n pairs and only dancing dame k (Salsa Rueda chapter in the Dance Book). Prior to the scene in the video, I asked a student to share her conjecture with the class because she had done the greatest number of examples and I knew that her work would be a great resource for the class. We see the student explain her conjecture.