Does this image look familiar? If you have walked the halls of Paine Primary you have passed by this décor. Have you ever thought about the math you see all around? In this picture, do you see four squares that come together to form a new shape? You also see a shape called a rhombus, which is a simple quadrilateral with four sides having the same length. Could this image also be of a tessellation, which consists of one or more geometric shapes with no overlaps or gaps? Yes, it is! Math comes alive as we look around.
Talk to your children or students about the math that you see, no matter where you are. It is critical that children realize math is not an isolated time during the school day. Math is part of every subject and is inside and outside the doors of the classroom all around us.
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