Mathematics in Art

The universal design of learning was created to make learning as flexible and fitting for every individual student as possible. As educators, it's important that we give each student their own means of representation, expression, and engagement. Every student varies in the way that they learn, and even in their assessment skills. I hadn’t thought about how I would find different ways to teach my students until I realized how many things that don’t seem to have any similarities are intertwined. When I saw the painting in class that we had related to pyramids, it led me to think of other ways I could use art in my classroom.

While I was making my way through all the collections in the museum, I found a painting that stood out to me. Although the painting itself didn’t look intricate but just like a collage of rectangles, it gave me the idea of using it for teaching perimeters of rectangles in my classroom. Giving students a visual different from the norm would automatically grasp their attention at first. To keep them interested, I would then use some rectangles that have missing pieces to help them learn how they would then find what the missing piece equals. Just by bringing one painting into a classroom, we can teach concepts in ways that we might not have thought of.  Getting students to learn, and understand material in a variety of ways will only help students academically to be more accepting of other methods of learning, and by doing that we can only hope they will start to apply some of that to real world scenarios.

By: Pierre Daura Untitled Street PICIRII 3

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