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Paper quilts: Looking back and moving forward

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A lesson plan for Grades 3–5 Mathematics

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Appropriate grades
3–5
Subjects
mathematics (geometry, patterns)
Provider
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Students use mathematical knowledge and skills developed in the previous lessons to demonstrate understanding and apply that knowledge to create a classroom display. Using designs created in a previous session, the class arranges geometric shapes to create a paper quilt.

Students will:

  • Explore ways to color a square to show two and four equal parts.
  • Create a four-patch quilt block using flips, slides and turns.
  • Use geometric and fractional terms to describe their quilt square.
  • Locate lines of symmetry.

NCTM Standards and Expectations covered in this lesson include:

  • Identifying, comparing, and analyzing attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes and developing vocabulary to describe the attributes.
  • Describing location and movement using common language and geometric vocabulary.
  • Identifying and describing line and rotational symmetry in two- and three-dimensional shapes and designs.
  • Predicting and describing the results of sliding, flipping, and turning two-dimensional shapes.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 3

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use basic geometric properties of two- and three-dimensional figures.
    • Objective 3.01: Use appropriate vocabulary to compare, describe, and classify two- and three-dimensional figures.

Grade 4

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will recognize and use geometric properties and relationships.
    • Objective 3.03: Identify, predict, and describe the results of transformations of plane figures.
      • Reflections.
      • Translations.
      • Rotations.

Grade 5

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will understand and use properties and relationships of plane figures.
    • Objective 3.03: Classify plane figures according to types of symmetry (line, rotational).
    • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons.
      • Sum of the measures of interior angles.
      • Lengths of sides and diagonals.
      • Parallelism and perpendicularity of sides and diagonals.