"Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth" - Pablo Picasso
If you can design tasks that involve students using all parts of their brain you are doing a great job.
Problem Solving
- What level of cognitive demand are you placing on your students?
What does your classroom look like?
- Door angles
- Mathematical language
- Fractions or square roots on clock
- Is the area you are covering evident in your classroom?
Creating Artworks
- Using numbers
- Number patterns - Fibonacci Numbers TED talk
Golden Ratio - Pi
- Create a skyline
- Create a bracelet - different colours for each number
- Take a timestable that you struggle with and lay out in pyramid form - connect together.
- Array wars - 2 dice and grid paper
- Array City
- Spiralaterals
- Multiples pyramid
Fractions
- Names - What fraction are consonants? What fraction are vowels?
- Names - Written on grid paper - what fraction of each colour is used in each letter?
Geometry
- Recreating artworks by Marc Chagall & Mondriaan
- Collaborative piece on window or floor
- Optical Illusions - Make your own using 10x10 grid
- Triangles - Angles - Triangle trees, Splitting page into triangles, star shape using centre line and dots joined to create triangles (what triangles have been made? What angles are there? Other shapes?)
- Create your own protractor using a paper plate
- Tape across table or board to measure angles.
- Straight lines - parabolic curves - multiplication facts
- Circles and Ovals - Wassily Kandinsky & Marc Chagall - Exploring language
- Circles and Ovals - Circle art by each child and then cut into pieces - improper fractions, symmetry, translations
- Cutting up magazines and exploring shapes
- Strips of paper - How many folds do you need to make to create a star? Art by Ben Nicholson - Can students recreate or draw this 3D drawing
- Paper cubes then draw on isometric paper
- Position and Orientation - Turning figures and drawing shadows - Artist - Alberto Giacometti
- Scale and Ratios - Plastic 6 shrinks in the oven - Place over picture and then bake
- Translate, Rotate, Reflect - Create a shape - Draw shadow at different times - What are the features? How do they change?
- Translational symmetry - Camera, Google, Drawing, Present - NZMaths Into the garden unit
- Tessellation - What proportion has certain colours? Look at reflection and symmetry
Measurement
- How big is my heart chain?
- Collaborative piece of Art and then measure longest/shortest line
- Origami
Measurement and Geometry
- Scale factor using minions or a shape - What stays the same? What changes? Look at centre of enlargement
- Artist - Jeff Thomson - Create a woven structure - How long do your strips need to be to make your way right around? Area, perimeter, volume?
- Creating towers - Inquiry using square routes
- Inquiry - What ratio of liquid is going to give you the biggest bubble - cost, art, brand
- Create a centrifuge - How much paint:water? Time? Length of string?
Statistics
- Time and Temperature of water inquiry
- 3D graphs
Probability
- Packet of starbursts
- Makeup pads and paint - What is the probability that you are going to get a certain colour?
Music and Maths
- Water in cups - Fractions
- Notes
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