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Salmon Fishing - Kit

Investigations into Probability

by (author) Aishath Shehenaz Adam, Jerry Lipka, Barbara L. Adams, Anthony Rickard, Kay Gilliland & Joan Parker Webster

Publisher
Brush Education
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Mathematics, Elementary, Native American Studies
Recommended Age
11 to 12
Recommended Grade
6 to 7
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    ISBN
    9781550593051
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

Students in grades six and seven use activities based on subsistence and commercial fishing in southwest Alaska to investigate various topics related to probability, such as experimental and theoretical probability, the law of large numbers, sample space and equally and unequally likely events. The module consists of nine activities, with each activity including an introduction, goals, materials used, preparation needed before class, vocabulary and instructions.

 

Includes one teacher resource, two posters, and two CD-ROMs.

 

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 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.

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