Math and Drama

I never would have thought to integrate Math into a Drama class, (or Drama into a Math class). In my mind, math and drama never cross paths, so I was really interested to see these activities.

Laman, A. © 2017

The first activity involved angles on cards. stand in a circle hold it up to the person next to you and say what kind of angle it is (ex: this is a right angle), the person says "a what?", the first person repeats "a right angle", and the other person says "oh, a right angle". That person takes the card and continues this process with the next person. Add in more cards and send it in the opposite direction. Allows students to teach each other angles and have fun with it.

Woolley, E. © 2017

Scenarios of fairytales:
Each group gets a different drama convention to use during their scene, based on a different fairytale. Students must incorporate 3 math questions into the scene that their peers must answer for the scene to continue.

The image shows the example that my group had. The fairy tale was Cinderella and the convention was an interview. We had one person act as the king and 3 others act as princesses who has to be interviewed to go to the ball. The king asked them one of these math questions and then the scene would freeze. This is the time the students would have to give the correct answer for the scene to continue.
Other examples included Rapunzel, with the convention of a news anchor, Goldilocks with the convention of people as objects, and 3 Little Pigs with the convention of tableau. Each fairytale and convention is used to quiz students on math questions to engage and entertain. The math questions can vary depending on grade and strand.