When Venn Diagrams Intersect Art and Math

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Teaching Children Mathematics

Publication Date

2017

School

Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education

Department

Department of Education

Abstract

Many elementary schools across the nation are scaling back or cutting arts curriculum altogether. This article presents classroom teachers with an activity for integrating art with mathematics. Through a three-phase exploration of reasoning with shapes and their attributes, students will get to know a classmate better, work with defining and nondefining attributes of shapes, and categorize "famous" artwork

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