1. Piet Mondrian and Math

2. Timer
Set up chairs with math problems on each chair. Have one fewer chair than number of players. When the music stops, players scramble to an empty chair. They need to correctly solve the math problem in 20 seconds in order to retain that seat. If they can’t correctly solve the problem in that time frame, a player who did not initially get a chair takes that person’s chair. One chair is removed on each turn until only one Master Musical Mathematician is remaining.
Mathematical
Musical Chairs Math Problems

3. Learning Targets: Quadrilaterals and Visual Art
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.G.A.1
Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
NCCAS.VA:Cr1-3.b: Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate own ideas through the art-making process.
Learning Targets: Quadrilaterals and Visual Art

4. Piet Mondrian and Math: The First Time
Quad Lesson Plan
Piet Mondrian and Math: The First Time

5. Student Examples

6. Learning Targets: Area and Perimeter Art
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.A Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.B Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7.C Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
NCCAS.VA:Cr1-3.b: Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate own ideas through the art-making process.
Learning Targets: Area and Perimeter Art

7. Piet Mondrian and Math- A New Twist
Piet Mondrian-Area and Perimeter
Piet Mondrian and Math-
A New Twist

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