Malke Rosenfeld is a percussive dancer, teaching artist, math explorer, curriculum designer, collaborator, editor and writer. Her interdisciplinary inquiry focuses on the intersections between percussive dance and mathematics and how to best illustrate these connections for students.
In her program Math in Your Feet, percussive dance becomes the platform for a robust choreographic inquiry into mathematical thinking, practices and topics. In addition to her work with elementary students, Malke also shares her work with teachers and teaching artists who wish to learn more about what math learning can look and feel like outside a textbook context.
As curator and editor of ALT/space, an active, international online writing project of the Teaching Artist Journal, she curates stories of practice from those working at the crossroads of art and learning.
In her personal blog, The Map is Not the Territory, Malke documents and shares her personal journey toward a deeper understanding of mathematics and how to teach it; this inquiry often overlaps with the adventures she has with her now eight-year-old daughter. Many of these making projects are collected on the Math by Design page of this website.
Malke is a contributing writer to the Moebius Noodles blog, a leader in adventurous, rich math experiences for babies, toddlers, young children and their adults. She is currently in the process of collaborating on a book of games, puzzles and making activities that explore the math concepts of variables, attributes, properties and more.