Math Poster - the beginning

OK, so how did these math posters get started? Well, I'm not exactly a mathematician. Yeah, you probably figured that out by now. Actually, I'm an artist and graphic designer. Like a lot of you visual spacial types out there, I married a math teacher. Last year she got her own math classroom and decided it needed some math posters for the walls. So she does what everyone does and Googles math poster. The math posters that show up on the Internet were just a little, shall we say, dull. While a math poster of math facts or geometric shapes may be useful, it wasn't the sort of inspirational math poster she was hoping for. Every math teacher hears the same thing from their math students,"why should we learn this? We're never going to use it!" She needed some sort of a math poster that would set a mood of excitement in class. A math poster that would show and inspire students to dream about a math related career. What most math students don't realise is what sort of possibilities math gives mankind.

So where to start with the math posters? Well it doesn't take long to start thinking that one of the best images for a math poster would be the aerospace industry. NASA is an obvious source for images for my poster. After some correspondence with NASA's archivist I found pictures that could work toward illustrating a math poster on how NASA commonly uses math in their Space Shuttle flights.

Here in Colorado there is plenty of aerospace people. Turns out that a friend of ours tracks satellites for a living. And guess what? He's like a math genius. So I start bugging him for math equations to put on my math posters. He gives me these cool little math equations that he uses. They're great but I ask him,"Do you have math equations that look more like this," and I spread my fingers further apart. "You know something that will fit my math posters better." Yep, that's just the look he gave me.

Finally, he tells me what my math posters probably need is a Clohessy-Wilshire (CW) Equation which is math equations used for tracking orbits in space. Perfect I say (mainly because it looked to be the right size for my math poster.)

Little did I know my math posters were far from being done. There was still a considerable amount of computer work to do on my math posters. Several of the math posters eventually required the merging of two or three different images. Not to mention color correction, sharpening, blurring, and believe it or not artistic representation of the math posters equations.

Well, this is probably more than you ever wanted to know about math poster or the creation of math poster. Your probably wondering why I use the word math and write math poster over and over. Writing the word math poster like this makes google like you more. And the truth is I'm not expecting anyone to read all this math poster nonsense. Now that you found this Blog take a look at the above math posters and click on the links to purchase them. Oh, and one more thing, MATH POSTER!

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