Love, and Love Lost

Visualizations of Love:
http://love.seebytouch.com/#LetMeShowYou

Clearly some are more mathy than others, but I like the variation in the types of visualizations.

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And quantifications of love no more:
http://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/

Sometimes when kids tell me that they're in a bad mood or not feeling well, I respond that doing math problems always makes you feel better. Looks like I wasn't making it up. Doing math as therapy is real!

Geometric Fruits & Vegetables

http://laughingsquid.com/geometric-fruits-veggies-photo-series/

Seems like there is a lesson on fractions here. How many watermelons are there in the first picture?

Another thought: This could totally be done as a number talk!

Another thought: I wonder how some of these pictures are analogous to the border problem? Is there something about making the pictures larger or smaller that could lead to a generalization? This one seems like it would work well for growing/shrinking/generalizing.

Another thought: This one is hecka cool for kids to think about visualizing how shapes get dissected and put back together in 3-D.


UPDATE:

My colleagues and I included some of these photos for Number Talks in our Math 6 curriculum. (For those who are unfamiliar with Number Talks, I highly recommend learning more!) We called them "Tasty Number Talks" and they have been a huge hit with teachers and students. Unfortunately I have not yet gotten to see a Tasty Number Talk in action, but I hear good reviews! I wonder what the artist Sakir Gokcebag would think about his art being used for math class...

Integration Drawing Projects

So cool! Recreate a picture using integrals. Totally builds on the other work we had kids do making designs with functions in algebra I and pre-calc.

http://bowmandickson.com/2012/05/15/integration-drawing-projects-12/