Cool Optical Illusions: Creative Activities that Make Math & Science Fun for Kids!

by Anders Hanson, Elissa Mann

Overview

Discover secret math and science tricks to creating art! This title introduces young readers to the sciences, with a creative twist. Math and science educational pages are interspersed with cool optical illusion activities that offer practical applications of the information students learn in class. All activities include how-to photos, easy instructions, and clear explanations. Reinforce Common Core Standards in reading, math, and science, while making cool art projects, from afterimage illusions to distorting illusions.

Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617838224
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Series:	Cool Art with Math & Science Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 10 Years

Table of Contents

Cool Optical Illusion: Tricky Images 4

See It! Believe It?: Types of Optical Illusions 6

Colors: Frequencies of Light 8

Project 1: Magic Color Spinner 10

Opposite Colors: Take it as a Complement! 14

Project 2: Afterimage Illusions 16

3-D or Not 3-D?: The Objects that Couldn't be 20

Project 3: Drawing Impossible Objects 22

Project 4: Distorting Illusions 26

Math Terms 30

Glossary 31

Web Sites 31

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2013
Gr 4–8—These books are not for inexperienced crafters. Flexagon requires several pages of explanatory material before the first project, "Make a Hexa-Tetra Flexagon," is even introduced. In Paper Folding, children are asked to fold an icosahedron made from 20 triangles by following a pattern without the benefit of written instructions. And in Tesselations, readers may find the sentence "You will need a truncated tetrahedron for every cuboctahedron and truncated octahedron you make" more than a little intimidating. The complexity of the crafts make it difficult to know who the appropriate audience would be. Color choices include a great deal of black and gray, making the books look somber and less than child friendly. These sophisticated choices would require adult guidance and encouragement for children to avoid frustration. Diagrams and color photos illustrate the projects.

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