| Building a Smokehouse - Kit: The Geometry of Prisms Contributor(s): Kagle, Melissa (Author), Barber, Valerie (Author), Lipka, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550593315 ISBN-13: 9781550593310 Publisher: Brush Education OUR PRICE: $37.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 372.704 |
| LCCN: 2007701981 |
| Series: Math in a Cultural Context: Lessons Learned from Yup'ik Eski |
| Physical Information: 1.73" H x 10.3" W x 12.4" (1.27 lbs) 113 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this module for grades six and seven, students learn how to build a smokehouse modeled after ones currently used by the Yup'ik people. Through this task, students construct models to generalize properties of rectangles to three-dimensional rectangular prisms. Further investigation into triangles and triangular prisms arise while designing roofs for the structures. The hands-on activities lead students to understand prisms in general. Includes one teacher resource, one poster, and one DVD. 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. |