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FUN WITH MATH

ART INTEGRATION
IN MATHEMATICS

The Warli or Varli is an indigenous tribe (Adivasi) of
western India, living in mountainous as well as coastal are-
as along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding

areas. Warli paintings are painted white on mud walls. The
paintings are beautifully executed and resembles pre-
historic cave paintings in execution and usually depict
scenes of human figures engaged in activities like hunting,
dancing, sowing, and harvesting. Skills in art and math are
closely related. Both disciplines require spatial reasoning
skills and the ability to recognize patterns. Artists and
mathematicians use geometry in their work — including
shapes, symmetry, proportion, and measurement.

MATH PUZZLE

Here is a Sudoku puzzle. Fill in the gameboard so the

numbers 1 to 9 occur exactly once in each row, column and
3 x 3 box. The numbers can appear in any order, and diago-
nals are not considered

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