Quilt Project: Six-Session Integrated STEM Unit

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Description

A six-session project developed for the GEMS afterschool club by expanding a quilt mathematics task. The designers "integrate art, cultural, real-life elements, and geometry, technology, and algebra into the project". Sessions run from knowing patterns, appreciating quilt designs and sharing stories, using Geogebra to draw a quilt design, listing materials and making the quilt, to an exhibition involving parents.

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Context

Requirements

• Six sessions: knowing patterns; appreciating quilt designs and sharing stories about quilts; using Geogebra to draw a quilt design; listing materials needed; making the quilt; an exhibition.
• Elements per session drawn from art, real life, mathematics, cultural, community and personal assets, technology, hands-on work and involving parents.

Constraints

• The article says the project is less focused on mathematics, since it does not connect to one specific subject.

Target Learners

• Girls in an informal afterschool STEM club (GEMS)

Target Goals

• Geometry, technology and algebra in an integrated STEM task
• Bringing cultural and life experiences into mathematics

Claims

Related Patterns

• Restorying Through Electronic Quilting
• Interdisciplinary_Activities
• Hands On Learning

Examples

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Key Sources

• Lili Zhou. (2023). Humanizing Mathematics through Boundary Crossing Collaboration. Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED658339

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Field	Value
type	design
id	quilt-project-six-session-integrated-stem-unit
title	Quilt Project: Six-Session Integrated STEM Unit
description	A six-session project developed for the GEMS afterschool club by expanding a quilt mathematics task.
status	review
generated	by claude/unspecified on 2026-09-24
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — lili-zhou-2023

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