Inspired by Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie", 4th grade teachers asked if I could do an art project to learn visually through the arts how to find Perimeter and Area in Geometry. We used graph paper to grid design our neighbo-rhoods..Really neat idea!
Click here to see Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woodie
These look so cool as a group - so different yet so similar.
Everyone used one square to represent 1 unit when doing the math for Perimeter and Area. We drew our streets, driveways, sidewalks, our house, neighbor's houses, if there were schools or stores, gas stations, pools, gyms, anything that is around your neighborhood. Some got pretty inventive. That's the art coming in :)
I showed them how to find the perimeter of a multi-sided shape (if it was not a quadrilateral, or equilateral) by separating the shape into smaller quadrilaterals, finding P and A, then adding the totals up. They had a test on the same day we finished these, so hopefully they did a great job.
