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Going to Egg Island -- Text: Adventures in Grouping and Place Values
Going to Egg Island Text Adventures in Grouping and Place Values Author:Jerry Lipka This is the Teacher's Text for the kit Going to Egg Island, the first in a series of elementary math curricular texts from the Math in a cultural Context: Lessons Learned From Yup'ik Eskimo Elders. Using the story of a young Yup'ik girl's first trip to gather eggs as the context, Yup'ik concepts of counting and grouping are introduced... more », and examples in the text use items commonly found in the Yup'ik culture, from foodstuffs, to tools and everyday objects. Writing under the auspices of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the text focuses on Alaska's Yup'ik natives, however, classroom trials in various city schools outside of Alaska indicate that non-native children find this approach equally engaging. Also, see others in this Yup'ik Math Series: Building a Fish Rack