Mathematics and Art – Symmetry (Reflection and Rotation)

We began this week’s art-maths lesson with a simple art activity. Butterfly painting. So simple that my almost-4yo niece became the instructor and explained how to complete the activity.

We then made “snowflakes” to explore rotational symmetry. We folded the paper into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, thirds and sixths. We had fun cutting out different shapes and seeing how they would look when our “snowflake” was opened. We also explored how many times the shape looked like the original, as we turned it around one full circle.

We hopefully have one more activity on Symmetry left 🙂