Integrating Art and Math (Story)

Looking for ideas for integrating art and math in Grades PK–8? Start with these works of art and resources.

Discussion Strategies

Use these strategies to observe where art and math intersect in works of art: Nouns and Adjectives, Word to a Work, and I Wonder.

Quick Tips

Explore shape, pattern, and coordinate planes in these quick activity ideas.

Lesson Plans

Pre-K and Elementary: Color Collages, Patterned Crowns, Textile Weaving, Mosaic Makers, and Using Shapes to Create Forms

Middle School: Constructing Circles, Scale Picture Recreation, Transformations in Math and Art

After the Mona Lisa 2 by Devorah Sperber (work of art)

Deborah Sperber After the Mona Lisa 2 2005

Raqqa II by Frank Stella (work of art)

An abstract painting of overlapping, multicolored half circles along a horizontal line. On the right side, a full circle is broken into sections and filled with colorful lines.

Study for Homage to the Square: "High Spring" by Josef Albers (work of art)

A painting of four nested squares. The innermost square is turquoise. It is surrounded by a dark gray square, which is surrounded by a light gray square. The light gray square is surrounded by a lime green square.

Cut-Pile Embroidery Panel by Unknown Shoowa Artist (work of art)

Woven textile with geometric patterns from Democratic Republic of Congo

Mosaic by Unknown Roman Artist (work of art)

A Roman mosaic featuring floral and geometric patterns made with pieces of white marble and colored glass.

Lines That Link Humanity by El Anatsui (work of art)

A giant, clothlike metal sculpture with yellow and silver-gray sections separated by multicolored vertical lines.

Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Subject Areas: Math, Visual Arts
Concepts: Function, Observation, Part/Whole, Problem Solving