Thursday, June 7, 2001

Quilt Math Comments by a Second Grade Student:

1. We have 36 patches so far in this quilt.

2. Today's fabric is a 1.

3. We have 172 patches in all our quilts.

4. We have a pattern by numbers by rows that goes:

[1,2,3,1,2,3]

[3,4,5,3,4,5]

[2,3,4,5,3,1]

[3,6,3,6,1,3]

[4,5,6,3,4,5]

[5,6,3,4,2,1]

5. We have 5 patches of fabric #1.

We have 4 patches of fabric #2.

We have 11 patches of fabric #3.

We have 6 patches of fabric #4.

We have 4 patches of fabric #5.

We have 4 patches of fabric #6.

6. We have a prediction that the next patch will be starting a new row, because we only have 6 more days of school and there are 6 patches per row.

7. There is something special about the last row. There are all the fabrics in the last row with no fabric repeating.

8. CLASS PREDICTION
Since we know that we have 6 days of school left, we have a prediction that we will start a new row because there are 6 patches in each row and that would make one more now by the end of school. The last day of school would be the last patch of this quilt.

Comments by other second graders:

1. We have 36 patches so far. We have 11 red patches so far and 25 blue patches so far.

2. Today's patch is A.

3. Our quilt is a 6 X 6 quilt.

4. Our quilt is 24 inches long and 24 inches wide. So that means the whole quilt is 2' long and 2' feet wide or 60 cm long and 60 cm wide.

5. We have 172 patches in our quilts so far.

6. We have a pattern by rows that goes:

[1,2,3,1,2,3]

[3,4,5,3,4,5]

[2,3,4,5,3,1]

[3,6,3,6,1,3]

[4,5,6,3,4,5]

[5,6,3,4,2,1]

7. We have a prediction that the next patch will be C.

8. The 6^th row has all the fabrics but out of order. This row is special because it has all the patches in the quilt. The sixth row has all the fabrics. It is different from all the others because all the other rows don't have all the fabrics that the sixth row has. The pattern of the sixth row is 5 6 3 4 2 1. If you want to say the numbers in order you can follow the line map that this second grader came up with by herself:

If you start at the number six and follow the arrows, you can say the numbers of the fabrics counting down from 6 to 1. The pattern of the curving lines without the numbers looks like this:

This second grader presented her math thinking to her classmates so they could understand her math pattern discovery too.

9. We have a prediction that we will start a new row because we have 6 more days of school and we can fit 6 more patches in our quilt.

10. We have a prediction that the next patch will be a new quilt because with only 6 days of school left, we would have a very small quilt.

11. We have a prediction that the next quilt will be a summer quilt.

12. We know we only have 6 more days of school so we predict that our next quilt will be 2 X 3 (two patches in each row with 3 rows) or 3 X 2 (three patches in each row with two rows).

Quilt Comments made by a First Grade Student:

1. We have 36 patches so far in our quilt.

2. Each patch is 4 inches long and 4 inches tall.

3. We have a pattern by rows that goes: [1,2,3,1,2,3] or [A,B,C,A,B,C]

[3,4,5,3,4,5] [C,D,E,C,D,E]

[2,3,4,5,3,1] [B,C,D,E,C,A]

[3,6,3,6,1,3] [C,F,C,F,A,C]

[4,5,6,3,4,5] [D,E,F,C,D,E]

[5,6,3,4,2,1] [E,F,C,D,B,A]

4. We predict the next patch will be F because F hasn't been the first patch in a row.

5. There is a pattern that is [DBA] now by numbers: [421]. That might be the pattern for the next row.

Other first graders comments included:

1. We have 36 patches so far.

2. We have a pattern by rows that goes:

[ABCABC] [CDECDE]

[BCDECA] [CFCFAC]

[DEFCDE] [EFCDBA] so far.

3. We have a prediction that the next patch will be D because it will make a pattern [DEAEDA].

4. We have a prediction that the next patch will be A because that will make a pattern of ABCABC like the first row.

We made a chimalong song map of our quilt using the number pattern of the fabrics.

[1,2,3,1,2,3]

[3,4,5,3,4,5]

[2,3,4,5,3,1]

[3,6,3,6,1,3]

[4,5,6,3,4,5]

[5,6,3,4,2,1]

Each number note on the chimalong has a different color.

Here is a picture of our calssroom chimalong.

We used the color pattern of the chimalong to make our quilt music map songsheet.

1 is red

2 is pink

3 is orange

4 is yellow

5 is green

6 is blue

Here we are making our song sheet music map:

Classmates used different strategies to make their chimalong songsheets. Some colored all the #1s first, then the #2s, etc. Others colored the pattern of patches starting with the first patch and going by rows.

Here is a finished song sheet:

We can play our Blue Skies and Butterflies quilt song on our chimalong! Click to hear our song in QuickTime format. When you listen to the song, you will hear music patterns of notes that repeat (like 123, 123 or 345,345) and that skip notes (like 36,36).

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