Making art with straight edge and compass will enable children to explore intuitively the basics of geometry. These Web pages are meant to be a resource for educators and learners alike, providing useful, ready-made worksheets that will give students access to authentic geometric experiences. Vocabulary is organized in a continuum of grade levels, and scenarios and hands-on activities give lesson plan outlines as models for use in the classroom. Most specifically, Geometry Through Art offers a heuristic approach for engaging learners at levels of visualization and analysis. It provides activities for developing a keener spatial sense, and offers empirical procedures that promote creativity and rigor in logic.
Geometry is an ideal subject area for the heuristic methodology.
Teaching Geometry Through Art is a program that invites students to investigate informally the elements of linear and plane geometry. They investigate polygons and their intrinsic grids in order to create beautiful visual works of art. They play with new tools and media in a geometrically structured context, constructing in two and three dimensions. Grade level vocabulary and holistic concepts of structure and ordinality are developed by raising students' perceptual horizons. Perception and concepts are deliberately matched to heighten awareness and fix retention.