Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens.
The children learned about the American painter, Wayne Thiebaud (1920 – present), and used his “Seven Suckers” (1970) as a springboard to discussing attributes and real-life examples of circles.
Students created their own Thiebaud-inspired masterpieces by coloring in 4-inch circles cut from cardstock, and then attaching a craft stick to the back of it, making their own sucker. They also adorned a coloring page, created in the spirit of Thiebaud’s “Seven Suckers.”
This integrated math-art lesson also featured a reading of, “What Is Round?” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, that enabled the children to see a plethora of circles in their world.
Put on your math goggles and see math in art!
