Computer Drawing

Add some visual arts to your pre-algebra curriculum with an engaging drawing project. After choosing a favorite comic strip, picture, or illustration, young mathematicians create enlarged scale drawings following a set of defined criteria.

How do the computers keep it straight? Using the provided algorithms, class members draw a line and a circle using pixels. They then check the drawings using a straight edge and compass to determine the accuracy of their drawings. 

Leap right into programming in JavaScript with this first video in the series. Start off with drawing a rectangle. Remember computers only know what you tell them. So you need to specify exactly where on the screen you want the rectangle...

Now let's expand our coding to include ellipses, rectangles, and lines using this easy-to-follow video. We are also adding some formality to the language we use by defining the following terms: function, parameters, pixels, and the x and...

Students explore animal drawing.  In this cross curriculum drawing, photography,  and animals activity, students combine computer drawing and freehand drawing to create an animal and its environment using a photograph of their own face...

Students study the basic artistic styles of suspension bridges. They follow step-by-step instructions to draw a suspension bridge. Students discover volcabulary related to the architecture of bridges. They examine websites of bridges.

Students draw a picture related to the book "Arthur Meets the President" using a computer drawing program. They listen to the story and answer discussion questions, view drawings on the teacher's Paint website, and create an...

A simple face can draw on the computer canvas using four lines of code each containing slightly different parameters to the ellipse function. Learners are guided through making changes to certain features such as making the mouth or eyes...

Now practice drawing a rectangle, ellipse, circle, and line by writing your own JavaScript code. Don't know where to start? No problem, you will be guided through creating every line of code. Getting an error message? Again, no problem,...

Students create a drawing representative of what peace looks like and evaluate their thinking process.  For this art for peace lesson plan, students use paper to begin their drawing. Students also have the option to use a drawing program...