Problem Solvers: Problem: North Dakota's centennial quilt

Autor:	Marian S. Small, Julie S. Long
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Centennial Mathematics education Quilt Psychology Visual arts
Zdroj:	Teaching Children Mathematics. 16:386-389
ISSN:	2327-0780 1073-5836
DOI:	10.5951/tcm.16.7.0386
Popis:	Quilt investigations, such as the Barn quilt problem in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Teaching Children Mathematics and its solutions in last month's issue, can spark interdisciplinary pursuits for teachers and exciting connections for the full range of elementary school students. This month, North Dakota's centennial quilt problem blends the mathematical strands of measurement, data and probability, geometry, and number. Problem scenario To celebrate North Dakota's centennial in 1989, Leonna Tennyson organized volunteers from around the state and made the world's largest historical quilt. Altogether, 7000 quilters crafted the 11,390-square-foot quilt, which depicts a state map and identifies its 53 counties. The quilt is 135 feet long and 85 feet wide. It was last displayed in 2005 in Antler, North Dakota, where Leonna lived. See the students'
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