STMR 606 The Barnes Foundation’s Math in Art

2 credits 28.0 hours
600 level graduate course

Math in Art offers teachers a chance to explore how art and math integration can invigorate students and bring curriculum to life. Over the six week online course, teachers will learn techniques from museum educators and math experts, investigate artworks from a world-class collection, and practice skills through video with a community of their peers. Each week, the teachers will build skills, starting with how to look closely at a work of art. They will then learn how to support an art dialogue with their students and, finally, how to add a math lens and facilitate math-based art experiences in their classrooms. Though the Math in Art course is online, the learning is interactive and self-paced, with opportunities to practice activities and teaching strategies online with their peers as well as with their own students. Throughout the course, teachers will reflect on their teaching practice and arts integration, culminating in their Final Project Lesson Plan. All teachers are welcome, with each week’s topic scaffolded so that teachers from all grades, disciplines, and comfort levels will feel confident bringing the course’s math and art integration concepts into their classrooms. Resources for classroom lessons will be provided, including lesson plans and ideas for integrating art into the math curriculum, a set of art posters, and free admission to the Barnes for the duration of the course. Through the coursework, teachers can earn Act 48 credit or earn graduate credit by creating a five-lesson project plan for their classroom.

This course may be repeated for credit.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.