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Mathematics Activities

• Geometry through Beadwork Designs
  Presents a lesson on geometry and beadwork with five phases of learning as described by Pierre van Hiele to tell the stories of different cultures and study isometry principles. (ASK).
• Integrating Multicultural Activities across the Mathematics Curriculum
  Integrating multicultural activities into mathematics instruction at all grade levels helps to foster appropriate and desirable attitudes about mathematics and its role in our culture. Multicultural investigations in mathematics reveal that many practices common to today's classrooms (such as reasonable guessing) served as the basis for solving various types of problems many centuries ago.
• Partnership Teaching: Success for All Children Using Math as a Vehicle
  Using a constructivist and multicultural approach, math skills were taught in urban elementary classrooms. Acceptance of self and others, teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking were emphasized.
• Puzzles, Patterns, Drums: The Dawn of Mathematics in Rwanda and Burundi
  Introduces games, puzzles, patterns, and drums from the African countries of Rwanda and Burundi. Contains 25 references.