An Overview of Integrating Math Concepts into Art and Nature

Each summer, teacher and Seedlings math facilitator Denise Quinn teams up with artist and educator Dita Carley and Cold Spring School teacher Franciela Boeding to show teachers how to see math beyond pencil and paper. Building on the guiding lens of the workshop, Dita and Franciela fill a large table with easy-to-find natural items for creating meaningful works of art. Those works of art are often depicting what participating teachers are learning in the workshop, but they take on an additional layer of meaning when Denise shows all the ways teachers and their students can discover and fully grasp math concepts through a hands-on approach.