Ancient Babylon Base 60 Number System

Mathematical Topics: Base 60 Relevance: Ancient Babylon Suggested Age: 8th | 9th Suggested Course: Middle School or Algebra 1 Lesson Summary: This lesson intends for students to engage with Ancient Babylon’s base 60 number system.  Through a discovery lens students...

The Origins of Fibonacci’s Sequence

Mathematical Topics: Origins of Fibonacci’s Sequence Suggested Age: 9th | 11th Suggested Course: Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 Relevance: India & Peru Lesson Summary: This lesson intends for students to engage with “Fibonacci’s Sequence” with a discovery lens and explore...

African Baskets & Regular Polygon Rotations

Mathematical Topics: Regular Polygon Rotations Relevance: African Baskets: Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Botswana Suggested Age: 8th | 9th | 10th Lesson Summary: This lesson intends to explore regular polygon rotational symmetry through the lens of African Basket...

Oracle Bones & Counting Rods

Mathematical Topics: Oracle Bones & Counting Rods Relevance: China Suggested Age: 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th Lesson Summary: depending on your class length, this might take 2 lessons or you may want to re-order and do “closing work/hw” as homework at the end)...

Ishango & Lebombo Bone

Mathematical Topics: Ishango & Lebombo Bones Relevance: Uganda, Congo, Eswatini Suggested Age: 8th| 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th Lesson Summary: The goal is to have students look at patterns and begin to understand why an artifact as old as the Ishango bone helps us...