According to Frank Otto from drexel.edu, "At any skill level, making art reduces stress hormones." I believe by mixing art with math, it can potentially prevent math anxiety and lessen the stress of classwork. "Negative feelings and stressful situations can interfere to different degrees with success in mathematical tasks," states Maloney and Beilock in an article called, "Stress, Time Pressure, Strategy Selection and Math Anxiety in Mathematics: A Review of the Literature" found in frontiersin.org.

This assignment is a wonderful way to check basic comprehension of ordering rational numbers without the stress induction math typically brings to some children.

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