Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

The kids in my math classes draw two-colour quilts on graph paper to show basic tiling patterns, and last year I gave them all bits of origami paper in two or three colours, showed them how to cut it to make two types of triangles, and told them to make a quilt square by gluing the pieces to another piece of paper. They had to be able to describe and re-create the pattern later. They had a ball.