And yesterday, I got to visit two of the world's greatest art galleries - The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Guggenheim Museum.
And after about 5 minutes, I started to think.
"How could I use art to inspire maths in my classroom?"
So, here are a few pictures.
How could you use them in your classroom to get a conversation started about maths?
Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken
Josef Albers
Large Blue Horizontal
Ilya Bolotowsky
Second Theme
Burgoyne Diller
The Bargeman
Fernand Léger
13/3
Sol LeWitt
Composition 8
Vasily Kandinsky
Rome
Anthony Hernandez
One Million Kingdoms
Pierre Huyghe
And here's an idea...
Maybe you could build up a portfolio of pictures of artwork that stimulate and provoke mathematical conversations with your class.
I showed this photo to my kids one day, just because I thought it was stunning.
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It sparked a long conversation about symmetry and opposites (inverse), and the conversation strayed into numbers.
My point is, sometimes deciding how you would use it in a math class and they decide it should be used are completely opposite things. When it comes to creativity of ideas, I put my trust in my students curiosity.
That being said, for the first three pictures with squares and rectangles, I might ask them to create a math game that used this painting as the board. You could even focus it to a certain topic (fractions, addition, etc) and see what they come up with.
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