Our Africa Quilt was our 5th Days of School Quilt.
Each square patch has two triangles. One triangle has giraffes and the other triangle has a Kente cloth pattern.
Here is our 24 patch Africa Days of School Quilt and the math comments we made on the day it was finished.
1. We have 24 square patches and 48 small triangles.
2.We have 6 big diamonds. Four small triangles make a big diamond :
2 all giraffe big diamond
2 all Kente cloth big diamond
1 half Kente cloth and half giraffe big diamond
1 quarter Kente cloth and 3/4 giraffe.
3. We have 1 trapezoid. A trapezoid has two equal diagonal sides one longer side and one shorter side. Our giraffe trapezoid has 3 small triangles.
4.We have 16 big triangles by rows.
the 1st row has 4, the 2nd row has 4, the 3rd row has 4, and the 4th row has 4. We have 16 big triangles by columns the 1st column has 3 big triangles, the 2nd column has 3 big triangles, the 3rd column has 1 big triangles, the 4th column 3 three big triangles, the 5th column has 3 big triangles, the 6th has three big triangle. We have thirty-two big triangles all together. We have have 13 all Kente cloth big triangles, 12 all giraffe big triangles, and 7 big triangles that are half giraffe and half Kente cloth.
5. We have 6 small parallelograms.
6. Our 5th quilt is finished . It is 4 by 6 It has 4 rows and 6 columns.
7. In our days of school quilts so far, we have:
25 patches in our 1st whale quilt
16 patches in our 2nd whale quilt
36 patches in our 3rd pumpkin quilt
36 patches in our 4th Kenya quilt
24 patches in our 5th Africa quilt
25 + 16 + 36 + 36 +24 = 137
8. To find out how many patches we have in all our quilt so far and how many days of school we have had so far, we did the these math steps:
a. We used math tools (buttons, plastic hippos, plastic kangaroos , or grocery tags) to count groups for each of the 5 quilts.
b. we arranged the math tools for each quilt in rows and columns.
c. we labeled each quilt group . Each label tells:
# of the quilt (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th,5th)
# of patches
# of rows & columns
d. We put our math tools in groups of ten to count the number of patches and days of school.
e. We did a twin check by adding the # of quilt patches by the column of tens and the column of ones.
f. We did another twin check using a calculator.
9. Counting the patches of all five quilts, we have 137 patches. We put up a quilt patch for each day of school so we have had 137 days of school so far.
10. We will have had 180 days of school when school is over in June. We used subtraction to find out how many days of school we have left:
180 -137 = 43 days of school left
Here is our Africa Quilt when it was all sewn together with border and binding.
