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Designing Patterns - Kit

Exploring Shapes and Area

by (author) Daniel Lynn Watt, Jerry Lipka, Joan Parker Webster, Evelyn Yanez, Dora Andre-Ihrke & Aishath Shehenaz Adam

Publisher
Brush Education
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
Mathematics, Native American Studies, Elementary
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    ISBN
    9781550593068
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $39.95

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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

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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.

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