St. Patrick's Day Mathematics LessonOBJECTIVES:
Develop number sense
Introduce number theory
Practice sums of ten
MATERIALS:
Worksheets
History of the Shamrock
pencils
markers
video about the history of St. Patrick's Day
Richard Phillips: Numbers: Facts, Figures and Fiction
D. G. Wells: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
LESSON:
Read History of the Shamrock
Watch "The Story of St. Patrick's Day" video
Curve-stitch a shamrock (St. Patrick's Day worksheet).
Investigate the number 3 with information from Phillips and Wells.
EXTENSION:
What other shapes might you get by using other sums?
LINKS:
Search The Math Forum and enter "curve stitching" in the text field.
Google for more info about: Lissajous Figures, String Art Lissajous. JAVA sites.
Heads or Tails
That's really cool! I didn't even realize it had made the shamrock shape until I started reading!
ReplyDeleteDo you remember getting string-art kits? Are you old enough to remember those? :)
That is too cool!!! My Dad used to say Math was the universal language :)
ReplyDeleteHappy H.O.T day :)
wow ... interesting! am not much into math, but hubby is ... he'd try to get into this right away if he'd get his way! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty interesting. When I first saw it though it reminded me of a design that was created using one of those old "spirograph" things. I used to have one when I was a kid and had fun drawing lots of different designs with it. Good post for the meme.
ReplyDeleteI am such an idiot....I saw the picture and thought okay green lines. It took me a minute looking at it to see the shape. Blond moment I guess hehe!
ReplyDeleteThere appears to be a lot of math involved. I see a graph and numbers.
ReplyDeleteMy kind fears math. And math-related activities.
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j/k have a great tuesday
This is really cool! I love all the different takes people come up with! It's awesome!
ReplyDeleteHow cool. Is this something that always interests you, or is it a St. Paddy's Day treat?
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Quite cool.
ReplyDeleteMy HoT 'green' is shared. I do hope you can drop by, if you haven't already. Be prepared to sing along with Kermit the Frog tho!! :::smiles:::
Too cool! I thought of string art at first, too, but this is so much more. I've bookmarked this to follow some of the links and read more. Thanks, Andrée.
ReplyDeleteIncredibly interesting and cool! :) What a great way to promote math! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool, amazing...wow!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great take on the green theme! I am going to show my children your post.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should be proud of myself because I saw the shamrock shape right away ;-) What a very unique and fun post!
ReplyDeleteWow! That's pretty impressive - Nifty post!
ReplyDeleteHi. Tried to post a comment last night, but my computer had a meltdown!
ReplyDeleteI love this post. I was always math and science phobic as a kid, but I've realized recently that it was silly. I may never be good at math, but it sure it intriguing, isn't it?
Happy St. Paddy's Day
What a cool idea! I used to teach math, so this is right up my alley! Have a great week!
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Maybe some day I'll get brave and try one of your math problem.
ReplyDeleteI never consider my self a math wiz but I've had people tell me that I fairly good at it.