Yoga is remarkable versatile and can be applied across the school curriculum in fun and interesting ways. Here I’ll show how to use yoga to calculate and compare area to the Elementary School Mathematics curriculum.
Elementary Mathematics: Calculate & Compare Area
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Working in partners, or with one student doing poses and the class measuring.
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Perform the various yoga poses measure the area of the body. This could be done with a grid carpet or a tape measure.
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Compare the area of three (or more) different poses. It can also be done in two dimentions or three dimentions depending on the curriculum requirements.
Some possibilities include:
child's pose
warrior pose
mountain pose
corpse pose
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