The Art of Math -IDEAation on Cross Curricular Learning

Examples of Cross-Curricular Learning Opportunities:

Perspective drawing: Slope and rate of change are directly connected to effective perspective drawing. If the slope of a drawing is not accurate, the piece of art as a whole is distorted. Similarly, if a drawing of a building looks slanted, a student knows there is an issue with the parallel and perpendicular lines within the drawing.

Ratios and colour mixing: Ratios and proportional relationships between colour are directly related to the development and creation of colours and gradients. When creating scale drawings or larger works, it is important to ensure the proportional relationship between colours remains constant to create consistent shades.

Composite shapes: Students can analyze properties of composite shapes when creating artwork or decomposing decomposing artwork into series of composite geometric shapes.

Math being driven by art: Building efficient containers for sculptures involved students using the most efficient and optimized packaging.

Art becomes a tool to communicate understanding of math: When given an image or drawing a shape, encourage students to ask these types of questions: “what do I notice?”, “how does that link to what I am learning?”, and “how can I represent that?”