Numeracy in the Creative Arts
As students develop skills, knowledge and understanding in making, performing, organising sound, listening, composing and appreciating in the creative arts, they will be required to apply numeracy skills and understanding.
Teachers can program explicit strategies that assist students to:
- understand and apply concepts related to space, such as: shape, pathway, form, position, relationships, composition, superimposition, viewpoint, dimension, perspective, positive and negative shape and illusion
- understand and apply concepts related to measurement, such as size, scale, length, distance, volume and time
- understand and apply concepts related to number, such as motifs, patterns, repetition, variation, counting, rhythm, phrasing, sections, round and canon.
Literacy and numeracy through the arts
Stage 3 units of work demonstrate how literacy and numeracy learning can be embedded in arts programs, and also how the arts develop particular understandings in these areas.
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