Salvador Dali

Spanish painter Salvador Dal was

fascinated by mathematics, many of
his paintings can be used to inspire
mathematical links.

The Flower of Life

This pattern, as seen to the right, consists
of an array of circles positioned in rows,
each one centred on the circumference of
circles in the neighbouring rows.

FINDING A
CONNE CT ION
B E T WE E N

M AT H E M AT ICS AN D ART

The Von Koch Snowflake

Students describe the patterns on the
butterflies and their shapes. They could
make symmetrical butterflies and recreate a piece of work with their own
butterflies.

THE ESSENCE OF
M AT H E M AT I C S L I E S
IN ITS FREEDOM.
The Von Koch snowflake is a fractal which is
constructed from an equilateral triangle as
follows:
1) Remove the middle of each side
2) Build a new equilateral triangle on each of
the resulting gaps.
3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the new object.
If you keep going, you will end up with the
fractal shown on the right

Can students spot the swans and the

elephants? You could use this painting
to explore reflections, rotations and
translations.

Check out a great how to video:

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basicgeometry/koch_snowflake/v/koch-snowflake-fractal

~ G E O RG C A N TA R

The Tree of Math

What does your tree of math look like?

M.C. Escher.
Make your own paper polyhedra!
Escher was not mathematically trained, and
even struggled with mathematics as a
school student. Yet he did not reject
mathematics, but instead figured out in his
own way, using various pictorial sources,
the mathematics that he needed in order to
realize his ideas and visions.
http://mathcraft.wonderhowto.com

Multiplication Drills can make ART!!

Artist: Paul Klee

Use 1-inch graph
paper and write out
a 1 digit by 1 digit
multiplication
problem with a 2
digit answer. choose
one that you find
dicult and repeat 7
times. "
Details on blog below.

http://onehappyartteacher.blogspot.ca/2013/04/
totally-cannot-take-credit-for-this.html

http://www.tessellations.org
Websites For More Math & Art connections:

http://plus.maths.org/content/maths-and-artwhistlestop-tour"
http://mathforum.org/sanders/mathart/"
The website below has a variety of links
to make math/art connections!!
http://www.studentguide.org/the-best-mathart-on-the-web/

BEADING Can you see a pattern?