{"id":69316,"date":"2020-04-03T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=69316"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:24:26","slug":"math-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/investigations\/math-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Math is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-69317\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-1140x760.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/ernest-ojeh-rTpPZD9PAk4-unsplash-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@namzo?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernest Ojeh<\/a> on Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>You can view other examples by using Google to search for \u201cartists who use geometric shapes\u201d or \u201cMondrian art\u201d, \u201cKandinsky art\u201d or \u201cDelaunay art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be creating their own art by tracing geometric shapes on to paper and then colouring them.<\/p>\n<h3>Materials Needed:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>paper, pencil, crayons or pencil crayons,<\/li>\n<li>thin cardboard (e.g., cereal or cracker box)<\/li>\n<li>scissors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Instructions:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Cut out 5 identical rectangles from the thin cardboard.<\/li>\n<li>Leave the first rectangle as it is.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the remaining 4 rectangles as illustrated by the dotted lines below to create cardboard rectangle and triangle templates.<\/li>\n<li>Students can use the cardboard shapes to trace on to paper to create their geometric artwork.<\/li>\n<li>After they have traced their shapes they can add colour.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/primmathday7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/primmathday7.png 387w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/primmathday7-132x300.png 132w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/primmathday7-165x376.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many artists use geometric shapes in their work. The paintings in the image above are by an artist named Piet Mondrian who often used rectangles in his art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72786,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69316\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}