Math Art: Masking Tape Shoes

Students use key geometry concepts while creating masking tape shoes.

Donna Penna Worrell

87 total reviews for this teacher

New class

60 minutes

per class

Meets once

9-12

year olds

1-7

learners per class

per learner

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Tue May 31

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Description

Class Experience

Shoes are perfect for integrating math and visual arts. All the elements of the visual arts is considered by shoe designer when creating their products- color, pattern, line, and balance. Shoes provide built-in measurement opportunities. In addition, shoes have visual and numerical patterns that lend themselves to graphing and algebra. 

In this class, students will create mental images and consider an object from multiple perspectives. Students analyze the geometric properties of the shoes...

Students will use their prior and current knowledge of geometric properties to analyze their shoes and their imaginations to create a three-dimensional shoe using masking tape.

I have taught this class at my own neighborhood school where the curriculum was based on integrating the arts into all subjects. I found that the students' were very engaged and found this lesson both challenging and fun.  

It excites me to see my students' eyes light up when something resonates with them and where they can use their own creativity and imagination! This class is definitely one of those.

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Shoe
Paper
Pencil
1 full roll of plain masking tape. 
Tools such as paper clips, pens, toothpicks

1 hour per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

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