It\u2019s easy to view art and math as completely separate subjects. Right brain vs. left brain. Creative vs. analytical. Imaginative vs. practical. Right?<\/p>\n
In fact, many of the core skills in art and math are closely related. Both disciplines require\u00a0spatial reasoning skills and the ability to recognize\u00a0patterns. Artists\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>mathematicians use geometry in their work \u2014 including shapes, symmetry, proportion, tessellations and measurement.<\/p>\n
For this reason, among others,\u00a0many educators have changed their focus from STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) to\u00a0STEAM<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 adding an \u201cA\u201d for Art.<\/p>\n
But sometimes, kids see themselves as either \u201can art person\u201d or \u201ca math person\u201d \u2013 as if they can\u2019t be both. As parents, we can fall into that habit, too \u2013 viewing our own skills and talents as\u00a0fixed and unchangeable.<\/p>\n
When we help kids see the overlap between art and math, we not only strengthen their skills in each, we expand their vision of what it means to be an artist and a mathematician. Math can be creative! Art can be analytical! Both can inspire our imagination.<\/p>\n
Try It At Home<\/b><\/p>\n
Once kids start looking for shapes and patterns in art, they will see them everywhere. Sometimes I go on \u201cshape hunts\u201d in picture books with my preschooler, asking him to find a square, a circle, or a triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s easy to view art and math as completely separate subjects. Right brain vs. left brain. Creative vs. analytical. Imaginative vs. practical. Right? In fact, many of the core skills in art and math are closely related. Both disciplines require\u00a0spatial reasoning skills and the ability to recognize\u00a0patterns. Artists\u00a0and\u00a0mathematicians use geometry in their work \u2014 including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,192,31,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}