Use the arts to engage, motivate, and inspire students in math class! This book provides thoughtful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in mathematics topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring math to life while building students' critical thinking skills and creativity.

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Cover -- Page 2 -Credits -- Page 3 - Table of Contents -- Page 4 - Preface -- Page 5 - Introduction -- Page 5 - The Importance of Arts Integration -- Page 10 - Arts and the Standards -- Page 12 - How to Use This Book -- Page 12 - How This Book Is Organized -- Page 21 - Correlation to the Standards -- Page 23 - Storytelling -- Page 25 - Understanding Storytelling -- Page 26 - Strategies for Storytelling -- Page 28 - Personification -- Page 37 - Scenarios -- Page 46 - Story Box Tales -- Page 50 - The Untold Story -- Page 56 - Points of Entry -- Page 61 - Drama -- Page 63 - Understanding Drama -- Page 64 - Strategies for Drama -- Page 66 - Mantle of the Expert -- Page 73 - Teacher in Role -- Page 79 - Tableaux -- Page 86 - Enacting Scenes -- Page 95 - Monologue -- Page 103 - Poetry -- Page 105 - Understanding Poetry -- Page 106 - Strategies for Poetry -- Page 108 - Poems for Two Voices -- Page 115 - Poetry Collections -- Page 122 - Found Poetry -- Page 126 - Structured Poems -- Page 134 - "I Am From" Poems -- Page 141 - Music -- Page 143 - Understanding Music -- Page 144 - Strategies for Music -- Page 146 - Experimentation -- Page 152 - Songwriting -- Page 161 - Scoring -- Page 166 - Call-and-Response -- Page 171 - Chants -- Page 177 - Visual Arts -- Page 179 - Understanding Visual Arts -- Page 180 - Strategies for Visual Arts -- Page 182 - Visual Narrative -- Page 187 - Visual Patterns -- Page 195 - Representation -- Page 204 - Visual Observation -- Page 211 - Mixed Media -- page 217 - Creative Movement -- Page 219 - Understanding Creative Movement -- Page 220 - Strategies for Creative Movement -- Page 221 - Choreography in the Classroom -- Page 223 - Introducing the Strategies -- Page 235 - Answer Me in Movement -- Page 239 - Movement Strings -- Page 243 - Progressions -- Page 251 - Interpretation -- Page 258 - Choreographic Structure.