Education Week

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My first successful one-point perspective art lesson that my students loved. Perspective is part magic and part math and for creative types like me, there

Exciting lesson ideas, classroom strategies, teaching tips, book lists, videos, and reproducibles in a daily blog by teachers from the classrooms of extraordinary mentor

Leaf Symmetry Drawings- love this idea as an art/science/fall decorations lesson!

Math art projects will get kids creative while also teaching them mathematical concepts. Fun ideas for children of all ages and skill levels.

Check out these 13 art and math projects from awesome education bloggers! And, be sure to scroll down to the end to find a list of books with art and math.

Cool math art projects for kids. Home or classroom. Clever ideas here.

It's Monday, which means once again, it's time to highlight some of the recent community submissions posted to the Math Craft corkboard. I also thought that we'd try and create something known as an "Orderly Tangle" or "Polylink". This week we had a few submissions based off the projects of the week: creating parabolic arcs from straight lines and creating concentric circles.

Activities combining math and art for kids.

Cool math art projects for kids. Home or classroom. Clever ideas here.

A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!

A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!

STEM Family Nights are awesome! They generate excitement for STEM in your school and community by allowing students, teachers, and families to explore STEM together in a fun way! Read our guide to planning your own successful STEM Family Night!

A while back I shared a tutorial on how to make a 3-D color wheel out of paper plates, which I found out from a reader comment, came from the September 2010 issue of Arts and Activities. I just wanted to share the photographs I took of these projects hanging in my display case. My 5th grade class this year is very small so they didn't exactly fill the case very much, but the first year I did this, I had almost 50 color wheels in there and it looked amazing!

Math and art have gone together since early artists began creating. Many great works of art contain mathmatics, from buildings and pottery to paintings and statues. Today on Share It Saturday, we’re featuring math and art activities that kids can explore while learning through creative expression. Combining math and art in kids’ activities can be a great ... Read more

About a month ago I posted some pictures of tunnel books that two Grade 6 classes made. I promised the tutorial and here it is. The tunnel book starts off as a regular accordion book and then halfway it flips up exposing a tunnel to the back page. It's a great project to incorporate writing and the visual arts. The tunnel section can represent a transition in the story, literal or figurative. With the Grade 6'rs it was part of their novel study. The had to choose a portion of the book they…