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Complex Text: What is Geometric Art?
https://medium.com/art-design-and-engineering-life-in-times-of/what-is-geometric-art-94a8b0f49118

This article is a great length and provides a connection between geometry and art with many visual representations as examples. This could be used in collaboration with an art class, or in math class alone where students could create their own geometric art and then calculate area, perimeter, and circumference for the shapes in their art.

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For the art lover.

Geometric art is the use of one or several geometric shapes, meant to create a visual sensory experience. The art is abstract, futuristic, and often colorful, portraying the created shapes in ways you never imagined possible.

Abstract art 2004 Regia Marinho.

Geometric art is an artistic movement created in the early 20th century by artists with a fascination...

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For the art lover. Geometric art is the use of one or several geometric shapes, meant to create a visual sensory experience. The art is abstract, futuristic, and often colorful, portraying the created shapes in ways you never imagined possible.

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Lesson Plan: Star Navigation - Explorations into Angles and Measurement

https://www.uaf.edu/mcc/files/modules/StarNav.pdf

This lesson plan comes from the University of Alaska Fairbanks' collection of lesson plans titled "Math in a Cultural Context". The University partnered with the local Yup'ik Native American tribe to connect math concepts to the culture and history of the tribe. This lesson would fit well into the geometry unit, as it discusses the basics of angles and measurement, which it connects to the Yup'ik people's stargazing.

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Book: The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-librarian-who-measured-the-earth_kathryn-lasky/298317/#edition=8119030&idiq=23594602

This book is short enough for teachers to read aloud to students, or assign students to read in groups. It is about an ancient Greek philosopher and connects directly to the geometrical ideas of circumference of circles.

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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth book by Kathryn Lasky

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Buy a cheap copy of The Librarian Who Measured the Earth book by Kathryn Lasky. A perfect introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers, written by a Newbery honor-winning author This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek... Free Shipping on all orders over $15.

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Article for Teachers: Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-twelve-ways-to-make-math-more-culturally-responsive/2020/12

This is an excellent article for math teachers who are wondering how to support their diverse students in a math classroom. Since math is one of the hardest subjects to find multicultural resources for, this article helps teachers think about the various ways that they can make their classrooms and curriculum more culturally responsive and inclusive for their students.

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Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive (Opinion)

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Four educators share ideas for using culturally responsive teaching in math class, including by helping students make community connections.

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Lesson Plans: Mayan Mathematics and Architecture.

https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/mayan-mathematics-and-architecture

This unit has many lesson plans and activities that connect the history of the Mayan culture with mathematical concepts, including ones that are in our geometry unit. The lessons about 2D and 3D shapes, would be a great addition to the unit.

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Mayan Mathematics and Architecture Unit for 4th - 8th Grade

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This Mayan Mathematics and Architecture Unit is suitable for 4th - 8th Grade. Take young scholars on a trip through history with this unit on the mathematics and architecture of the Mayan civilization.

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Activity: Map My Community

https://www.afsusa.org/educators/lesson-plans/mapping-my-community/

This activity has many quality questions for teachers to engage students in their community. The best math standards to connect to this lesson would be scale, as students could draw a small version of their town or school based on a scale factor to the actual thing.

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Video: Pi Day Music Video

https://www.nms.org/Resources/Newsroom/Blog/2018/March/Serving-Up-Hip-Hop-on-Pi-Day.aspx

This hip-hop music video all about pi would be great for introducing and reinforcing the main ideas of pi, which we use when calculating the area and circumference of circles in geometry. Many students will be excited to include music, especially hip-hip or rap from their culture, into math. A great follow up activity to this video would be having students write their own rap or poem about a topic in geometry.

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In celebration of Pi Day, NMSI invited math teacher and rapper LaMar Queen to talk about how he has combined his passion for music and his love for education to engage his students. Here's his latest release all about pi:
month of school my students were calling me boring and challenged me to rap in order to make class fun and engaging. After weeks of saying no, I finally wrote

Jimmy Pascascio and I began making music videos to engage our middle school students back in 2007.

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In celebration of Pi Day, NMSI invited math teacher and rapper LaMar Queen to talk about how he has combined his passion for music and his love for education to engage his students. Here's his latest release all about pi: month of school my students were calling me boring and challenged me to rap in order to make class fun and engaging.

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Activity: Scale Model - Geometry and Architecture.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scale-Model-Geometry-Architecture-21st-Century-Math-Project-790573?st=2fa57cafd54ec1cabdc535929fb7cc96

This activity teaches scale, congruence and similarity through famous landmark architecture from around the world. This would be a great collaborative lesson between history and math to have students research the buildings and learn about their history and the country's history and then participate in the math lessons connected to the building.

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Get your student's hands busy with the construction of a scale model of their favorite landmark in this 21st Century Math Project. Through practicing skill with scale and measurement, students will learn foundational architecture and engineering concepts.

This is a hands-on STEM Project for hands-on learners and provides a nice departure from the grind of the daily classroom and culminates in a project that can fit nicely on display in your school or classroom.

In this 34 page document you will be given a mapping to the Content Standards, an outline for how to implement the project, and handout resources for students to use. ***THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A GOOGLE SLIDES INTERACTIVE VERSION INCLUDED. REDOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVE IT ALREADY***

In "Keeping Things in Proportion" students familiarize themselves with scale and basic architectural concepts through simple scale drawing exercises.

In "Rescaling & Remodeling" students will measure drawings of famous landmarks and redraw them in a different scale.

In "Map Your World" students create a scale drawing of a hallway in their school. Recording sheets and graph paper is included in this file.

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"Scale Model". Which provides procedures, resources and a student packet for students to research, design and build a 3-D scale model of a building.
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Scale Model -- Geometry & Architecture - 21st Century Math Project

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Get your student's hands busy with the construction of a scale model of their favorite landmark in this 21st Century Math Project. Through practicing skill with scale and measurement, students will learn foundational architecture and engineering concepts. This is a hands-on STEM Project for hands-on...

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Activity: Triangles in World Flags
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Triangles-in-World-Flags-Google-Slides-Presentation-5722733?st=026cd6951d4f21b82ada1ebb263928d9

Students learn more about a chosen country as they identify and classify the triangles present in the country's flag. If I were to use this activity I would extend the math concepts to include other shapes within the flag, and perhaps use it as a scale activity, where students would draw a smaller replica of the flag and calculate the scale factor from their replica to typical flag dimensions.

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This activity is so much fun and serves as the perfect blend of math and other subjects; in this case countries around the world! In this project, students choose country that has at least one triangle in it. The Google Slides template guides them through identifying their triangle based on both angles and sides, and also learning about their country. I upload this slide to Google Classroom, and assign it to each student. Then, students teach each other about the new country they learned about (I encourage them to choose countries they may not know a lot about!) Again, the student choice was a great buy-in for my kiddos who were less than excited for our geometry unit.

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**The preview for this product is a student exemplar from my class! The product you purchase will be blank and editable.

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Triangles in World Flags Google Slides Presentation

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This activity is so much fun and serves as the perfect blend of math and other subjects; in this case countries around the world! In this project, students choose country that has at least one triangle in it. The Google Slides template guides them through identifying their triangle based on both ang...

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Article: The Hexagon, the Solstice, and the Kiva by Chris Hardaker.

https://www.earthmeasure.com/pdf/HexagonSolstice.pdf

This article details fascinating findings from native drawings that connect geometrical ideas to tracking the seasons. It could be used when discussing angles in shapes and using a protractor to measure angles. Teaching about how ancient societies used math for practical reasons is a powerful lesson for students today.