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Question: What mathematics content does this activity entail?
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The activity includes recognizing geometric patterns, working with shapes and their properties, understanding congruence, and developing spatial sense, including exploring such transformations as flips, slides, and turns.
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Question: How are the other Process Standards embedded in this lesson?
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Children communicate their ideas and reasoning by describing their patterns. They represent their ideas by cutting and pasting their rectangles and triangles onto larger pieces of paper.
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Question: What are some connections between this problem and children's everyday experiences?
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The lesson connects to quilts, which some children may be familiar with, and to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Question: What are some connections between this problem and other subject areas?
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This problem incorporates both art and language arts.
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