Going to Egg Island Kit Author:Jerry Lipka Going to Egg Island is a math curriculum for first and second grade. This is the first in a series of elementary math curricular texts from 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 gro... more »uping are introduced, 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. The kit contains a teacher text, a reader, five posters, 2 cds, and coloring book masters.« less