Maths Week 2012

We were excited about doing the math activities Graham had organised for us during Maths Week 2012.

We set off in our small groups while some senior students helped us with the puzzles and games.  We loved thinking about how to work them out.

                                    

Back in our class we had plenty of Maths activities planned during the week.

Firstly, we looked at shapes.  We looked at 2D and 3D shapes. 

 VC said that 3D shapes were "when you look at something and it looks like real life"

 Then, we made a shape from a net.  We had to guess what the shape could be before we put it together.

 Almost there.  "I think it's a triangle". HG

We learnt how you can fold paper to make different shapes.  What do you think of our origami puppies?



We also learnt about a dutch artist called Piet Mondrian who was born in 1872 (that's over 100 years ago!) At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change. He started to create abstract images ... much like the Mondrian-style paintings you see here.   How did he come to paint this way? Well, the more Mondrian looked at trees, buildings and vases, the more he saw their basic shapes and colors. You can try this too ... just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color ... no real objects. This is what Mondrian did. Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries - red, yellow and blue.
.  Using his style of painting we made our own Mondrian art. 

We used rulers to draw 4 vertical lines and 6 horizontal lines.  Using the primary colours red, yellow and blue we coloured in our shapes...