Art and Culture: Exploring the Louvre: Shapes

Take a tour of the Louvre in Paris and learn geometric shapes by analyzing this famous museum's artwork! This text integrates math and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Take a tour of the Louvre Museum in Paris and learn all about geometric shapes! Students will be engaged in learning principles of geometry as they search this famous museum for shapes. This full-color book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, and incorporates nonfiction reading to increase vocabulary and comprehension skills. The practice problems, graphs, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they've learned to their daily lives. Essential text features like a glossary, index, and table of contents will increase students' interest level and their interaction with the text. "Math Talk" poses problems for further thinking, requiring students to use their higher-order thinking skills. Teaching math and reading has never been so seamlessly integrated-or so easy!