Learning Through Movement: An Arts Integrated Approach to Teaching Geometry Through Dance
By: Diana Dart Harris
This curriculum integrates dance and movement into an elementary school math program to increase the academic and cognitive development of the students through an innovative, creative, non-traditional approach to learning. Geometry comes to life in movement classes that explore the basic elements of dance while students learn the concepts of shape, symmetry, parallel, perpendicular, angles, perimeter, circumference, diameter, and area
