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Squares, Patterns and Quilts
A practical, real context for maths
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Squares, Patterns and Quilts
This exciting publication explores shape using designs from American patchwork patterns.
Stuck for new ideas in Shape and Space? Looking for a fresh approach to squares and triangles? Want a practical, real context for some maths? Would you like your youngsters to enjoy visual and tactile experiences as well as cerebral ones?
This booklet offers a great many practical classroom ideas which will encourage you. Whether you begin with the photocopiable masters provided, follow the instructions for paper folding (on to Origami later?!), or use the LOGO routines listed, you will quickly become fascinated by the patterns you produce. It is full of starting points for classroom activities and comes complete with a set of appendices which include masters for quilts and grids that can be freely photocopied.
An ideal resource for cross-curricular work. Suitable for KS 2.
ISBN 0 900095 95 4
Stuck for new ideas in Shape and Space? Looking for a fresh approach to squares and triangles? Want a practical, real context for some maths? Or a topic that celebrates, rather than ignores, a variety of cultures? Would you like your youngsters to enjoy visual and tactile experiences as well as cerebral ones?
This booklet offers a great many practical classroom ideas which will encourage you.
Whether you begin with the photocopiable masters provided, follow the instructions for paper folding (on to Origami later?!), or use the LOGO routines listed, you will quickly become fascinated by the patterns you produce.
But be warned! You and the children are likely to find yourselves scouring the local library for some of the wonderfully illustrated texts on quilts from around the world...
...or inviting someone from the local Quilter’s Guild to come into your school to work with your class...
...or arranging a school trip to one of the regional or national shows of quilts (and don’t forget your camera!)
And a final challenge? There is a tradition in many areas of people gathering together to make a special quilt to mark a birth, wedding or a centenary ... or more recently to publicise a particular cause. If you like the idea behind the ubiquitous school tea towel covered in children’s self-portraits, but are looking for an interesting alternative, why not build on the quilting tradition?
Make a’celebration' quilt for your class or for the whole school. Now that really would be a maths topic to remember!
Before you begin
Getting started
Two by two grids
Drawing patterns from grids
Naming
Varying the materials and the size
Using a computer
Patterns from other grids
Patterns from a very special grid
Patterns from 4 ready-made tiles
All-over patterns with ready-made tiles
Making all-over patterns with your own tiles
Using curved lines
Appendices
