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Price: $14.95
Format: Softcover
Audience: Teachers
Copyright: 2003
ISBN: 978-1-55059-246-7
Order #: CLE-04-03

Going to Egg Island - Storybook

By: Jerry Lipka

The storybook text of the Going to Egg Island: Adventures in Grouping and Place Values kit.

Information on the entire kit (storybook text, CD-ROM, a poster, and a coloring book) follows:

Using the story of a young Yup'ik girl's first trip to gather eggs, Going to Egg Island introduces to young students the mathematics concepts of counting and grouping. The first in the Math in a Cultural Context series, this kit uses objects and examples commonly found in the Yup'ik culture — foodstuffs, tools, everyday objects — to put mathematics in a broader cultural context. As such, students learn not only about the pragmatic uses of mathematics, but also about the world. Though the kit focuses on the Alaskan Yup'ik natives — a culture most children will be unfamiliar with — classroom trials in various city schools inside of Alaska indicate that non-native children find the subject matter and approach stimulating and engaging.

In repeated trials, the modules in the Math in a Cultural Context series have improved students' math performance when compared to comparable groups of students who have used the school's regular curriculum.

Included in the full kit is a CD-ROM, a poster, and a coloring book.

If you find this useful, consider:

Going to Egg Island - Teacher's Text

By: Jerry Lipka

Price: $28.95 | Format: Softcover | Copyright: 2003

ISBN: 978-1-55059-245-0 | Order #: CLE-04-02

Going to Egg Island Curriculum Kit

By: Jerry Lipka

ISBN: 978-1-55059-257-3 | Order #: CLE-04-01

Picking Berries Curriculum Kit

By: Jerry Lipka, Janice Parmelee, Rebecca Adams

ISBN: 978-1-55059-294-8 | Order #: CLE-08-08