Fall: Math Art from the planet Zerd - Students will decipher codes and messages from the planet Zerd. Then we’ll figure out how their math and art works. This information turns into beautiful designs and codes. Then we’ll work with designing a tile design for our homes using real tiles, learning to transfer our designs onto real tiles and painting them. Mathematical concepts covered: Thinking mathematically using clock arithmetic, figuring out and predicting mathematical patterns, how fractions, percentages and decimals are mathematical languages that describe a 10 x 10 picture, geometric transformation: rotation, reflection, translation.
Art concepts covered: Designing with patterns and then transforming them, creating a design using the ideas of what is in a room, problem solving with art, painting, color mixing, the importance of brainstorming ideas.

Winter: Making Knots - Here students get a chance to take a look at Knot theory (a current mathematical topic), play with camping knots, draw Celtic serpents and Celtic knot designs, take on the challenge of Gordian’s Knot, make a Chinese Good Luck Knot, then in addition we’ll do some anamorphic art and if time we’ll make a camera obscura from Renaissance Times. mathematical concepts covered: pattern prediction, knot theory, transformations using various kinds of grids. Art concepts covered: working with grids, transformation of a picture, drawing.

Spring - the Queen’s Garden - Students will use the Queen’s requirements to create a plot plan of a garden complete with a garden house, various kinds of plants and flowers, paths through the garden, a fountain, a sculpture and a key of what is in the garden. After the plot it finished, students can make models of various parts of their gardens - all on large graph paper.
Concept covered: landscape architecture which involves the math of organizing ideas using percentage, fractions and decimals and the art of garden making.