Whether the course is one belonging to a traditional mathematics or science discipline, or even a
teacher education course, it is much more meaningful to have students seek these connections for
themselves rather than the instructor or textbook pointing it out to them. What we have strived for
through both of the photography and math-science initiatives has been to have students actively and
independently find meaning in science and mathematics; their own meaning which cannot be invalidated. The student experience in these events can be compared to the true nature of scientific and
mathematical progression where the disciplines are advanced by trial and error and by appealing to