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Subject

The Arts (1996)

Description

Using the painting, Cakes by artist Wayne Thiebaud, students will learn and practice math concepts of volume and surface area. Then they will create a bold cake painting, either online or with classroom art materials.

Resource

Access this resource at: Thiebaud's Cake Math (intermediate version)

Content Provider

National Gallery of Art

The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.

Policies and procedures toward these goals are cumulatively set forth in the Gallery’s legislation, bylaws, trustee action, and staff guidelines. The following general definitions outline the goals of the Gallery.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

ARTS.VA.I.1.1.B Students know and use a variety of sources for developing and conveying ideas, images, themes, symbols, and events in their creation of art.

ARTS.VA.I.1.1.D Students during the creative process, reflect on the effectiveness of selected mediums or techniques to convey intended meanings.

ARTS.VA.I.2.1.A Students develop skills with a variety of art materials and competence in at least one medium.

ARTS.VA.I.2.1.B Students use the computer and other electronic media as designing tools and to communicate visual ideas.

ARTS.VA.I.3.1.C Students compare the ways ideas and concepts are communicated through visual art with the various ways that those ideas and concepts are manifested in other art forms.

ARTS.VA.I.3.1.D Students compare the ways ideas, themes, and concepts are communicated through the visual arts in other disciplines, and the various ways that those ideas, themes, and concepts are manifested within the discipline.