Using Op Art to Teach Fraction, Decimal, and Percent Equivalents

1. A SIOP Lesson Plan
Jodi Weiler
Using Op Art to
Teach Fraction,
Decimal, and
Percent Equivalents

2. Assemble an Op Art piece using proportional relationships
to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.
Content Objective:
Language Objective:
Record proportional relationships (ratio to decimal to
percent) using Op Art.

3. • Op Art (optical art)
• Ellsworth Kelly
• Ratio
• Percent
• Decimal
Vocabulary:

4. • Ask students how many have ever been to the DIA? How many to an art
museum outside of Detroit? How many of them like art? How many know
what Op Art is? Discuss Ellsworth Kelly and other Op Art artists. Show a brief
slideshow of Optical Art and discuss how math is incorporated into art.
What is a percent? (part of 100). What are some other ways we can
represent parts of a whole? (fractions and decimals).
Building Background:

5. • 100 square grid on ledger paper
• 5 different colors of 1” squares
• glue
• pencils
• calculators
Materials:
Supplementary Materials:
• Op Art Slideshow
• Worksheet

6. What does math have
to do with art???

7. Detroit Institute of Arts
Louvre
Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

8. Art that uses geometric
patterns to confuse or excite
the eye.
What is Op Art?

9. Color For a Large Wall
1951
Ellsworth Kelly

12. • Students will create an op art
piece of their own on a 100
square grid using up to 5 colors
provided. If they choose to leave
spaces blank, the blank spaces
will count as white. At the bottom
of the sheet, there are columns for
Color, Number, Fraction, Decimal
and Percent, where students will
convert each based on numbers
of each color used in their art
piece.
Activity/Application
Name:
Color Number Fraction Decimal Percent
Total = 100

13. • Students who demonstrate strong
grasp on concept prior to
beginning this concluding lesson
can challenge themselves by
excluding the outer ring, leaving
them with a 64 square grid.
• To reinforce relationship, students
who finish early can complete
worksheet. Other students can
complete for homework.
Differentiating Instruction
NUMBER OF
SQUARES OUT
OF 100
FRACTION DECIMAL PERCENT
EQUIVALENT
DOLLAR
AMOUNT
1 75 3/4 0.75 75% $0.75
2 1/5 0.2
3 30 0.3
4 12/25 48%
5 60
6 37%
7 0.56
8 44
9 23/25
10 7/10
11 91%
Fill in the missing percent, decimal, and/or fraction for each of the following:
NAME: ___________________________ DATE: ____________________________

14. Questions?
Comments?

15. Thank you for your
attention!
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