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Making Art Out of Math 🎨

Published about 1 year ago • 1 min read

Reader, did you know, I’m a math nerd? Through and through.

BUT, I was recently reading an article about the art of writing (because kids need to develop all these skills). It started with this brilliant quote,

“A great tragedy of the education system is its inability to make writing an appealing skill. In fact, it feels like the system has been intentionally set up to make writing an absolute slog.” ​
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And I thought, yes. Yes!

Take that amazingly well-thought-out quote, replace “writing” with “math,” and it echoes my sentiments perfectly!

I’m a major believer in the fact that children are our future. I am here to help them grow into confident, capable, innovative, problem-solving, empathetic, and kind humans who can also do math and think mathematically when needed.
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So, in an effort to help get out of the school math slog, and bring some joy back to math, here’s an activity that doesn’t feel like math:

Download these symmetric grid arts and talk about symmetry and shapes with your kid.

Or don’t even have a conversation about the math in this art!

Just let your kid – and yourself – have some fun drawing and coloring, while using mathematical concepts.

To taking the slog out of math,

Heidi

P.S. I’m left-handed. The world was not made for us lefties. I’ve created these grid arts for either lefties or righties.

Reply to this email if you love finding things that feel meant for your (or your child’s) left-handedness!

Welcome to the WiseKinde world!

I’m Heidi, your expert in making math fun (or at least not crappy) and your fellow parent in just figuring-it–all-out.

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19 years in the education world taught me it's time to do math differently. I'm here to help you shake math up; everyone can do math with confidence!

When I'm not doing math, I love being outside, traveling, puzzling, gardening, and cooking.

Spending time with my pack-my 2 kids and partner- fills my cup with joy, too!

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