Pythagorean Spirals

Our charge this school year was to collaborate with another department on campus. So, Visual Arts paired up with Math. We have had some successes in this journey. Here is one of the lessons. Mrs. Walker taught a lesson on Pythagorean Spirals. They ended up being so creative...I had to share!

How did we tackle this? Well, upper school math classes worked with our upper school visual arts classes on different projects. This charge was not especially for lower and middle school but we wanted this to be a one school goal - so we joined in on the fun! Cathy and I decided to really focus on integrating the math vocabulary into all of our lessons. This was a no brainer as we do this any way but we are making a point to state this is a math term too!

We agree with the artist video. Math can be fun. Thanks, Dana!

Pythagorean Spiral. Use right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem

to create unique and beautiful math art! I love this project so

much, and my students love it too! Apply mathematics while

getting creative! I also always add in some conversation

about the Golden Ratio, and relate it back to the spiral to

add in some exciting inspiration. Break away from

worksheets and textbooks with this activity. Or just do it for fun,

because YES math can be fun!

What is a Pythagorean Spiral?

A Pythagorean Spiral is a series of right triangles specifically configured 

so that the hypotenuse of the first right triangle becomes a leg of the 

next right triangle.

So, Math+Art is not a new concept to Kim and Katie. See the link below:

https://2soulsisters.blogspot.com/2020/03/kim-and-katies-art-math-collaborative.html

This link above has all the other links to some of our Math+Art collaboration from middle school.

 💓, 1969