Mondrian and The Golden Ratio

Team teaching is fun.
Students in their math and language arts class (team teaching with Ms. Wojtak) learned about Mondrian. Then we made rectangles using the golden ratio.
Finally students made their own Mondrian inspired art.
The following pictures tell the story..

To learn more about Monderian check out the links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
http://art.pppst.com/mondrian.html

To learn more about The Goldan Ration check out the links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html

A Special thanks to Ms. Harris for bringing this awesome lesson our way!