Collages & Artworks

In this activity students consider their attitudes and thoughts about Mathematics, the role that math plays in their lives, or how they might use numeric data to describe themselves and their families. They then cut out numbers, symbols, or other text or graphics from newspaper, magazines or other publications. After arranging and pasting these figures onto a piece of paper or cardboard to create a collage, the students write about their work in a paragraph entitled "What Mathematics Means to Me".

Many participating classes sent collages that included pictures of clocks, money, people, geometrical shapes, architecture, food products; and students wrote about how much we all rely on math everyday in our interaction with the world.  

This example is from a fifth grade student at Centro Escolar Morelos in Mexico, whose artwork speaks about how math is linked not only to everyday activities, but also more generally to human progress:

What Mathematics Means to Me: What mathematics means to me is that if each person in Mexico or other Latin American countries knew math with precision, we would not be in this "third world-ism"; mathematics is the progress of humanity.   ¿Que significan las matemáticas para mi?   Las matematicas para mi significan que si cada una de las personas de México u otro país Latino supiera con precisión matemáticas son el progreso de la humanidad.

My first meeting with Math was when I have played on my piano. Now Math help me to know all the stories of my piano! Maria Dumitru, the 2nd grade School No. 10 Focsani, Romania Collage: Maria Dumitru & Raluca Antonache School No. 10 Focsani, Romania

From Tessellations and Rotations Geometry Project  courtesy of  Lillis Weber  and her students  Mandarin High School  Jacksonville  Florida

My Numbers' Game

Math & Time

Math Puzzle

 Artworks by: Maria Dumitru, 2nd grade, School No. 10, Focsani, Romania

My Math Collage by: Narcisa Stoian 7th grade School No. 10 Focsani Romania

Math Stained Glass Computer Graphic by: Florin Postolache 7th grade School No. 10 Focsani Romania