LA STATISTICA PER LA MISURA DELLA BELLEZZA

Abstract · Statistics to measure beauty · We would like to point out an experimentation performed in an italian school in the first year of a Professional School in Palermo (Fashion course).A lot of ideas, such as beauty, proportionality, perfection can be found in many professional subjects and also in basic ones (Maths, Italian language, English language, Sciences, etc.). We tried to adapt M@t.abel (E-learning basic Maths) materials and methods “L’uomo di Vitruvio” (Bartolomei et al., 2010), to a professional school. This didactic activity, organized by the Maths teacher, involved other three teachers and lasted for 50 hours, not taking into account the planning and presentation to the class. The chosen methodologies were : brainstorming, problem solving, cognitive activity, individual and group works, lab, interactive and frontal lectures. The assessment of the experimentation provided the teachers’ evaluation (based on the products and the acquired skills) and the students’ self-evaluation. To conclude, we would like to show the results in learning statistics of two groups of students : the first is the group of students following the experimentation, the second one is a group of students learning statistics without the experimentation (Bartolomei, Giambalvo, 2015).