Designing Patterns - Kit
Exploring Shapes and Area
- Publisher
- Brush Education
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2006
- Category
- Mathematics, Native American Studies, Elementary
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Unknown
- ISBN
- 9781550593068
- Publish Date
- Jan 2006
- List Price
- $39.95
Classroom Resources
Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
In this module designed for grades three to five, students design patterns to be used in a headdress or similar linear strip. They explore properties of shapes, lines of symmetry, and part-to-part and part-to-whole relationships. The module provides numerous opportunities for the teacher to extend and adapt this curriculum, from further explorations of fractions to Yup'ik cultural knowledge.
Includes one teacher resource, one student reader (Iluvaktuq and Paluqtalek), one DVD, and one CD-ROM.
About the Series Math in a Cultural Context
This series is a supplemental math curriculum based on the traditional wisdom and practices of the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska. The result of more than a decade of collaboration between math educators and Yup'ik elders, these modules connect cultural knowledge to school mathematics. Students are challenged to communicate and think mathematically as they solve inquiry-oriented problems, which require creative, practical and analytical thinking. Classroom-based research strongly suggests that students engaged in this curriculum can develop deeper mathematical understandings than students who engage only with a procedure-oriented, paper-and-pencil curriculum.
About the authors
Daniel Lynn Watt's profile page
Joan Parker Webster's profile page
Eva Evelyn Yanez, a former Yup’ik teacher and state-recognized bilingual educator, has been involved in education for over 30 years. She has extensive experience working with Yup’ik Elders and collecting, recording, transcribing and translating traditional Yup’ik stories.