art teaches math

art teaches math

art and math are one

Let's look at snowflakes.

Perfect for the night before....

"cutting snowflakes is good for teaching the interior and exterior angles of polygons, estimating areas of shapes, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry", sylvia puglisi

My daughter uses art to teach math.

Hexagons.

She specifically is using snowflakes at the moment.

Hers are exquisite. 

She is a snowflake designing person.

I see patterns for them online as well.

I enjoy each year reading Snowflake Bentley to my children. 

Sylvia introduced me to the wonderous work at Caltech from snowflakes.

When I go back to school my students will enjoy learning about crystals and cutting winter snowflakes as a part of our polygon work.

Hexagons are so cool.

I'm going to try several kinds of snowflakes including these.

 Nice examples:

Snowflake movies here.

And hope I'm not in hot water for linking this interesting article.

This one got a definite laugh all around the room.