Ten top tips for teaching maths through the performing arts
Finding practical applications for maths, is key to understanding the importance and relevance of the subject, and enthusing your children.
- Ages All
Be maths smART
This resource is designed to provide inspiration & ideas for teaching maths through the performing arts.
- Ages 7-9, 9-11
Resource 8: Uni-Form/s…discuss belonging
Do Ho has brought together uniforms from the different stages in his life to create this piece.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 7: Home within home…examining moving
In this piece Do Ho has recreated two important homes: his home in South Korea and the first place that he lived when he moved to the USA.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 6: Paratrooper I…discovering the individual
The figure of a paratrooper appears to be pulling a parachute towards himself. The ‘parachute’ is, in fact, made of thousands of signatures.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 5: Net-work…exploring connections
This piece is created from lots of tiny figures fixed onto a fishing net. Net-Work resembles a fishing net.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 4: Reflection…learning about spaces
This piece is a copy of a gateway from Do Ho’s childhood home in South Korea. Do Ho is interested in transitional spaces that link spaces.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 3: Cause and effect…investigating past influences
This piece looks, from a distance, like a powerful tornado. Look closely and you can see it is made of thousands of tiny figures swirling.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11
Resource 2: Who am we? Exploring the unique
This ‘wall paper’ is made from photographs of thousands of teenagers’ faces taken from the artist’s high school yearbooks.
- Ages 5-7, 7-9, 9-11