Coreo-Graph: un progetto di teoria dei grafi e danza

TL;DR

Coreo-Graph creatively integrates dance-inspired activities into graph theory education, enhancing problem-solving skills and understanding of Eulerian paths through embodied learning methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interdisciplinary approach by combining dance and graph theory to improve comprehension of Eulerian paths in a learning laboratory setting.

Findings

Enhanced engagement through embodied activities

Improved understanding of Eulerian paths

Successful implementation in educational settings 2022-2024

Abstract

In this contribution we revisit a learning laboratory of graph theory, based on the well-known K\"onigsberg's bridges problem due to Euler, already proposed and described in Gaio-Capone-Branchetti (2020): we extend some of its conceptual aspects and laboratory activities, in particular by inserting a dance-inspired activity in order to explore the properties of Eulerian paths. In this new guise, the project was proposed and tested in the period 2022-2024 as an activity to strengthen the curricular skills of problem-solving. At the same time, it was an opportunity to think over the role of embodied activities in facilitating understanding and assimilation of abstract concepts of mathematics.