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Knitting
This Teachers TV video features Jenni Stather, the Ethnic Minorities Achievement Co-ordinator at Shaftesbury Primary in Newham. Having organised a knitting workshop, Jenni discovered that many students with English as an additional language come from traditions in which knitting, and other handicrafts, are commonly practised. Seeing their enthusiasm for the craft, Jenni decided to try to use it as a tool to teach mathematics.
Jenni is joined by Mathematics Consultant, Isaac Anoom, to teach a lesson to students from Years Five and Six. A range of activities with a knitting theme are used as the basis for:
• Calculating measurement
• Estimating and predicting
• Ordering and sequencing
• Working out area and perimeter
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