Aboriginal Number Lines
Create a number line inspired by aboriginal art to use in solving addition and subtraction problems on the number line.
Resources
- 1/2 sheet of white copy paper
- Sharpie Markers
- Metallic or Gel Pens
- Australian Aboriginal Paintings by Jennifer Isaacs – Presents a collection of traditional aboriginal paintings and discusses the connections between aboriginal art, ancient beliefs, and the Australian landscape.
- Shapes of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft
- Colors of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft
- Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories by Oodgeroo Nunukul and Bronwyn Bancroft
- Australian Aboriginal Art: A Coloring Book for Adults and Children by P Platt
Fine Art Standards
- VISUAL ART STRAND: Connect (1.V.CO.) Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context
- Standard 1.V.CO.2: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding that people from different times and places have made art for a variety of reasons.
Integrated Standards
- Math Standards STRAND: Mathematical Practices (1.MP) Standard 1.MP 4 Model with Mathematics: Identify the Mathematical elements of a situation and create a mathematical model that shows the relationships among them. Identify important quantities in a contextual situation, use mathematical models to show the relationships of those quantities, analyze the relationships, and draw conclusions. Models maybe verbal, contextual, visual, symbolic or physical.
- STRAND: Operations and Algebraic Thinking (1.OA) Standard 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction. For example, by counting on 2 to add 2
Objectives
Students will create a number line inspired by aboriginal art to use in solving addition and subtraction problems on the number line.