Thinking About Linking: The Prime Radicals, Season 1
Catalogue Number: GAP044
Producer: GAPC Productions
Subject: Mathematics
Language: English
Grade Level: 3 - 5, 6 - 8
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2011
Running Time: 15:00
Uncle Norm’s “hush hush” work is getting kind of slow, so he needs to pick up business at his Stuff ‘n Such Shop. How can he do it? With a banner sign! He meets with a math teacher who shows him how special folding techniques, combined with cutting cool shapes can make for a really neat linking banner.
The Gist: This episode is about congruent shapes, patterning, symmetry, and simple transformational geometry. Using a simple doll pattern and specific paper folds, (also knownas a “generator”), it is possible to generate many concrete representations of slides, flips and turns.
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