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Object Lessons: Teaching Math through the Visual Arts, K-5 book cover

1st Edition

Object Lessons Teaching Math through the Visual Arts, K-5

By Caren Holtzman, Lynn Susholtz Copyright 2011
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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When Caren Holtzman and Lynn Susholtz look around a classroom, they see “a veritable goldmine of mathematical investigations” involving number, measurement, size, shape, symmetry, ratio, and proportion. They also think of the ways great artists have employed these concepts in their depictions of objects and space—for example, Picasso’s use of geometric shapes in his Cubist still lifes or... Read more
Introduction CHAPTER 1 THE FACE CHAPTER 2 FOOD CHAPTER 3 GRIDS AND GRAPH PAPER CHAPTER 4 THE ROCK CHAPTER 5 PAPER CHAPTER 6 THE SHOE CHAPTER 7 THE FLAG CHAPTER 8 THE JOURNAL CHAPTER 9 THE CLASSROOM

Biography

Caren Holtzman was a classroom teacher for ten years and currently works with undergraduates and graduate students interested in pursuing the field of education at the University of California, San Diego. She also leads demonstration lessons and workshops in mathematics education for teachers and administrators. Caren has written several children’s books as well as numerous teacher resource books.

Lynn Susholtz, an artist and educator, has been a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence and an arts education consultant for UCSD’s Education Studies Program and San Diego Unified School District. She is the recipient of numerous arts grants and awards, including the American Planning Association Outstanding Planning Award and the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Orchid Award. Lynn develops and teaches multidisciplinary, multigenerational arts programs. She also owns Stone Paper Scissors (a public art company) and the ART Produce Gallery.

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