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Welcome Thank you for using this pre-visit resource. We believe this will help strengthen student learning leading up to and during your gallery visit. Due to the different versions of Power point schools may use, please check for, and correct any formatting issues before you use this presentation with your students. Please check by viewing in slide show format before making any necessary changes. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. Learning Experiences Outside the Classrom Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts Phone: (09) 577 0138 ext 7703 [email protected] Jeremy Leatinu’u Education Coordinator Te Tuhi pre visit lesson 2 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pwilley/1491573602/ Welcome to Secret Meanings During this lesson we will be exploring… • Numbers in Colour Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cuisenaire-Rods-2.png Before we start let’s recap on our last lesson… Image: http://painter.whangarei.biz/ • In nature such as trees, plants, sea and sky • In the food we eat • Through the clothing we wear In the last lesson we learnt that colour can be seen • And in the materials we use to make art • In the places we live such as our house or city • In animals or pets we may have Colour can be seen in many things, but how can colour mean numbers? Georges Cuisenaire (1891 – 1976) A primary school teacher named Georges Cuisenaire was interested in helping students understand numbers. Georges thought that maybe thinking about different colours and different sizes could help see numbers differently. Let’s look to see what Georges was thinking about… Image: http://www.memory4teachers.co.uk/channels/presentations/cuisenaire/images/dr2.png 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 HeThis decided meant each his number students would could have usethe the a blocks block blocks and to help be maths certain problems. height. This In his garage day Georges decided towould focussolve on acreated… 10 numbers. Let’s tryone some using Georges has would help show exactly how each number is different. 1 1 2 To make thisour number Now block is thethe same same number and equals what 2. do I need to add? Let’s try 1another + 1as = height 2this one… 2 3 5 To make Nowthis ournumber block Let’s isthe the trysame same height and equals what 5.do I need to add? 3one + 2 more… =as 5 this number, 3 6 9 6as +this 3Georges =height 9 To make this Now number Let’s our block see the same what is theelse same number, and was what equals interested do I 9. need in… to add? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Georges Can painted block a different Let’s to try… colour help represent we each still use these blocks solvetomaths problems?a different number 6 4 10 Nownumber our block the Let’s height more… and what equals To make this theissame 4same as +try 6this =one 10 number, do10. I need to add? 5 3 8 our block is the same and equals To make Now this block theLet’s same try 3height + something 5 =height as 8 thisdifferent… block, what8.do I need to add? Michael Parekowhai 1 2 5 3 Lets Let’s Complete As we start move canwith the on see last the toeach the column left3rd next column columnequals 14. 6 Parekowhai New Zealand artist Michael was also interested in the columnlooks like this… which blocks Georges made. He decided to create a very large 1 are in 4 columns sculpture based on these blocksThere as seen this photograph. And if by westacking count alleach the colours used in Michael decided to create 4 columns colour on this 10 colours top of one another. In this image wesculpture can onlythere see 3are columns. 7 altogether. Now that we know each colour is a number, let’s add all the colours in one column to see what number we get. 10 9 8 Use the Cuisenaire rods to help you… 4 14 14 14 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 Let’s what we have learnt numbers so far… As werecap have on seen, colour can mean 4 7 3 8 2 9 1 10 So what have we learnt so far? 5 Colour can • mean or represent a number • help see and understand how numbers are different to one another 9 • help solve maths problems in a very different way • mean numbers and numbers can be important to a piece of artwork 14 In the next lesson we will explore “ Words in Colour” End of lesson