SADRŽAJI LIKOVNE UMETNOSTI U NASTAVI MATEMATIKE

This paper considers the possibilities, ways and benefits of in- cluding the content of fine arts in mathematics teaching in order to overcome the dichotomy of these subjects in teaching. Divisioned into affective and cog- nitive areas, fine arts and mathematics are instructed as teaching subjects with very little or no connections between them. Their developmental and historical compatibility and interdependence are easily overlooked. Factual connection between fine arts and mathematics enables the mutual application of teaching contents in education by applying the principle of horizontal correlation and the integrative approach to the teaching process. Such approach to teaching stimu- lates the development of flexibility in thinking, the ability of divergent thinking, the establishment of functional relationships between knowledge, and indepen- dent searching for information (learning how to learn) in order to achieve more complete personal development of students and their creative capacties. In this paper, special attention is given to specific examples from the curricula of these subjects, which in the realization of teaching in a very easy and spontaneous way encourage the connection of facts.