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for the love of learning: Stop writing the objectives on the board

for the love of learning: Stop writing the objectives on the board: How often have you been told that writing the lesson's objectives on the board is best practice? Can you think of even one reason why do...

for the love of learning: Stop writing the objectives on the board

for the love of learning: Stop writing the objectives on the board: How often have you been told that writing the lesson's objectives on the board is best practice? Can you think of even one reason why do...

MUSIC AND LEONARDO DA VINCI PAINTING

Music is closely linked to mathematics in terms of the rhythmic patterns a piece of music can employ. Leonardo understood this. Leonardo da Vinci's Mathematical Composition

In the painting of the Last Supper, it was recently discovered that the proportions of the Last Supper painting were mathematical in nature (apart from the use of a vanishing point), which derive themselves from the musical equation of 12:6:4:3.

If measured in equal units, the paintings' size is 6 by 12 units. The back wall measures 4 units and the windows are 3 units. 

In terms of the musical equation, 6:12 represents an octave, 4:6 denotes a fifth and 3:4 is a fourth. 

Leonardo left clues to his thinking with the following quotes, 'resonance between visual and aural harmonies' which shows he saw a correlation between the two (painting and music) and 'offer praise to the harmonies of the universe' was used to signify his intention of using the equation proportion. 

Within the painting, music melds the harmonies of the paint and mathematics.

http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/leonardo-da-vinci-mathematician.html