The concept of symmetry may be heady, but Center School has a host of new Symmetry Detection Agents who are seeking it out in music, art, geometry and beyond.

Members of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra brought “The Sounds and Shapes of Symmetry” to the school’s first, second and third grade students on Monday.

Each year the orchestra’s educational program studies one concept. This year, the symmetry program has been presented to 45 schools from Falmouth to Rhode Island, said Terry Wolkowicz, education director for the symphony.

“We are probably one of the only symphonies in the country that is doing programming like this that is fully linked throughout the school year where a concept is studied multiple times,” she said.

The program is integrated with the Common Core standards that schools are adopting, which seek depth over breadth, said Wolkowicz.

“We need to really support what’s going on in the schools. We’ll come back as many times as a teachers requests it,” she said.

For the initial program on Monday, students were introduced to slide, reflective and mirror symmetry, with violinist Emmy Holmes-Hicks, cellist Peter Zay and clarinetist Randolph Palada playing different types of music that reflected the concept.

The work of artist M.C. Escher was also used to display symmetry as was a Rubick’s Cube.

At the end of the event, kids were commissioned as agents to go out and find symmetry in their everyday lives. What they find will be documented and submitted to the orchestra for a youth concert in March where the full symphony will perform.

“All their ‘evidence’ becomes part of the concert so they actually will see their own stuff up there,” Wolkowicz said.

Once they’ve got their field research, students, er, agents will be asked to write their own “kid friendly” version definition of symmetry for new recruits.