![]() Julie Homenuik, Parent, Secondary English TeacherThis book, inspired by Jo Boaler’s work on creating a growth mindset, sends an imperative message to young children: math is a language everyone can learn. Let this essential children’s book, sweetly illustrated in gentle watercolour by Alexandria Masse, show the beauty and joy in recognizing the value of a positive attitude toward math. Bring this book into your homes and read it to your young children. After seeing friends achieve goals with hard work and recognizing her own hard work in completing an arabesque, Amy realizes her “brain is a muscle, you know,” and she just needs to “make it grow.” With a fresh perspective, Amy succeeds.Įveryone Can Learn Math is an accessible book with an important message for young and old alike. The skills to do math are not some elusive math gene that she simply wasn’t born with they are skills that she has already developed in other areas of her life. Young Amy, the math-frustrated protagonist, soon realizes she does possess the skills to succeed in math, and they are determination and perseverance. This book, inspired by Jo Boaler’s work on creating a growth mindset, sends an imperative message to young children: math is a language everyone can learn. This is an example of a simple Desmos art project using points and lines: If your child can understand horizontal and vertical values, they can easily transition to a table of values by learning how the entries in the table work. I wanted to introduce her to lines on the graph without using equations (because she’s too young still for y = mx + b), so I showed her the table of values feature and how to connect the points with lines. She changes the colours of the points and is entertained for a long time simply creating designs with her points. Our seven-year-old has used the calculator to create dot art in the past as she has learned coordinate points in terms of horizontal and then vertical values. You can use the online calculator or you can download the app on any device. The team at Desmos also does good work in equity in math education. Desmos is my favourite graphing app because it is free and easily accessible. I mentioned earlier that we have done a little exploring with online graphing calculators at home. This piece was done by my daughter with the goal of having rotational symmetry in each quadrant. These are perfect for classroom use, but my kids at home like to draw and colour on them to create artwork using the squares of the grid as guides for drawing. We have several mini whiteboards with a grid on one side. The kids love playing on whiteboards with dry erase markers – probably for the same reasons students love them in the classroom (check out the Thinking Classroom and research from Peter Liljedahl for more information). I will outline a few ways to explore art and math together. There are so many ways to use graph paper to encourage math talk while creating art with your child. If you child is interested or ready, begin discussing coordinates using the x- and y-axes in a similar way to calling out coordinates while playing the game Battleship. This is also a chance for your child to practice using a ruler to create straight lines and encourage fine motor development. Try incorporating math vocabulary like horizontal, vertical, line, line segment, etc. Using graph paper to create art opens the opportunity to discuss math topics while your child is creating the art. Try this website for all kinds of graph paper that you can print at home. You can purchase all different kinds of graph paper, or you can find free printables online. ![]() I have introduced her to more types of graph paper recently and taught her some new tricks on Desmos as well. My daughter and I have experimented with grid paper in the past in many different forms, including some dabbling with the Desmos graphing calculator. I recently saw this post on Instagram using symmetry and dot paper, which gave me some inspiration to further explore grid paper art. My seven-year-old is a little artist and is happy to indulge in all of my math activities. Math and music go together beautifully, and math and art are a stunning combination. I especially love when math is combined with other subject areas. I love pointing out math topics that can be discussed from objects that seemingly don’t hold any math in them. Read the original blog post here.įinding the math in the world around us is one of my favourite things. This blog post was originally written for the Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler Blog.
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