October 17

Place Value Collage

Place value turned into art in our classroom recently. Students have been hard at work creating interesting collages using different sized circles to represent different place values. The bigger the circle, the bigger the place value.

Students learned about scale and how overlapping creates visual depth. We looked at 2 different works of art (seen below) and compared them. How were they similar? What did we see? Which circles appear in the front? Back? Why did the artist put some circles in front of others?

Students represented numbers in the thousands. They used various types of paper such as sandpaper, foil, newspaper, coloured paper, bumpy paper, smooth paper, paper with print, and several students used buttons to represent the ones or units.

Have a look at the process and the final products!

Can you read the numbers that were created?


Posted October 17, 2017 by MrsS in category 2017-2018, Math, The Arts

9 thoughts on “Place Value Collage

  1. Brandon

    dear miss sullivan I love how you show everyone’s art in that video!Can we do that again but with science?From Brandon.

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    1. MrsS (Post author)

      Hi Brandon!
      We can do many things with our blog! What kind of science would you like to show? Do you have a specific idea?
      Mrs. Sullivan

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  2. Jack

    Hello Learningin21,
    In our class, we have just started doing some place value!! I really like how you made all those dots to represent each place value. You used a lot of different textures and designs to make it pop!! I had a fun time learning about your class, your students are very good at cutting those circles!!

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    1. MrsS (Post author)

      Jack,
      I had to chuckle at your comment about the students doing well at cutting the circles. Using tracers certainly helped, but even with that, it was still a challenge for some! In your class, what place value do you study up to? Millions?
      Mrs. S

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  3. Kayley

    Hey Mrs.Sullivan and her class,
    My name is Kayley. I’m from Mrs.Smiths grade 6/7 class in Canada! I remember when I did place value its a pretty fen math activity.But it seams like you have turned this math activity in to an art activity! That so cool! I loved reading about this cool thing that you did!
    Have a wonderful day,
    ~Kayley<3
    Oh and P.S heres my blog URL
    http://kayleyz12.edublogs.org/

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  4. Trey

    Hello fellow bloggers! This is Trey from huzzah.edublogs.org and Id like to say that’s super cool ow you made the two best subjects into one! Bye now, Happy Halloween!!

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  5. Paterson family

    What a fun way to integrate math and art! I love all of the different textures and colours that you chose!

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