Going to Egg Island - Kit: Adventures in Grouping and Place Values (Math in a Cultural Context) - Jerry Lipka, Teacher's Edition, Paperback

• Release Date   1/1/2003
• ISBN-13   9781550592573 | 978-1-55059-257-3
• ISBN   1550592572 | 1-55059-257-2
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Jerry Lipka
• This module is designed for students in grades one and two. In a series of problems built around the story of a second-grade girl gathering sea bird eggs in the spring, students learn and apply the mathematical concepts and skills of counting and grouping two-digit numbers, estimating, measuring, sorting and place values. Students play traditional Yup'ik games while simultaneously investigating number patterns, which lead to a strong sense of grouping and place values. Includes one teacher resource, one student reader (Egg Island), one coloring pages master, five 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 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.