Eye Spy MATH in American Memory

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Eye Spy MATH in American Memory

• DCPS Library Media Specialist Presentation
• October 7, 2004
• Gail Petri, Educational Resource Specialist
• Library of Congress

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• The Library of Congress Collections are full of
  primary source images and documents that can be
  used to enhance the teaching of math!

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Getting Started

• Brainstorm math words to use as search terms.
• Encourage students to think about words
  describing shapes (octagon, triangle, pentagon,
  cylinder, square), large numbers (thousand,
  million), measurement devices (abacus, ruler,
  scale, calculator), and mathematical terms
  (intersect, parallel, circumference, diameter).
• Hunt for images across the American Memory
  Collections using these terms.

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You will find hundreds of wonderful images and
documents to choose from
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Giant wheels ten feet in diameter, once used for
carrying logs to sawmill. Michigan (1936
photograph)
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If you cant go buy war bonds Our bonds are
their security!! (1940s poster)
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Colville men on horseback ride around inside
circle of tipis on July 4th, Nespelem, Colville
Indian Reservation, Washington. (1905)
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Yellow Owl MandanDescription by Edward S.
Curtis A face approaching the type of pure
Mandan. The neck ornament consists of beads and
cylindrical bones, and from the eagle-feather
war-bonnet hang numerous weasel-tails. (1909
photogravure)
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Three men seated at table with checkerboards,
spectators looking on (1941 photograph)
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Weve a million in the field , 1,000,000 (1862
sheet music)
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War Department. Pentagon, aerial view I.
(1920-1950 photograph)
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New York, New York. Chinaman counting on an
abacus in a Chinese grocery store in Chinatown
(1942 photograph)
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Row of automobiles parked perpendicular to two
other rows of automobiles on a rooftop parking
lot (1928 photograph)
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The corner is squared and reinforcement nailed
over joints. Screen door construction
demonstration. Charles County, La Plata,
Maryland. (1941 photograph)
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Whats next? Have your students create Eye
Spy type questions to go along with each image.
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I spy men playing a game with circles and
squares. What game are they playing?
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I spy a necklace made of white cylindrical beads.
How many cylindrical beads can you count?
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I spy a poster that has two graphs. What does it
ask you to buy?
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I spy a man calculating with a special device.
What is it called?
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I spy a number equal to 1000 thousand written two
different ways on this song sheet. What is the
number?
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Conduct the Eye Spy Activity

• Print out and mount the images on construction
  paper. (Make sure to include the image title and
  summary on the back of the paper.)
• Display the mounted photos on a bulletin board or
  along a hallway.
• Give the class time to study the display.
• Have each student read his or her Eye Spy
  question aloud.
• Have class members try to be the first to find
  the correct matching image.

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Use your observation skills to create your
ownEye Spy questions with these Washington, DC
images!
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White House Grounds and Ellipse http//memory.loc.
gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh_at_field(DOCID_at_lit(DC0
798))
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U.S.Capitol http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?
ammem/hh_at_field(DOCID_at_lit(DC0253))
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Or.Try your hand at writing a math word problem
based on these documents with more text!
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Photo Button Manufacturing Company (page 3 from
undated catalog) http//scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/d
ynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/_at_Generic__BookTextVi
ew/39341
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Public Sale (1858 broadside) http//scriptorium.li
b.duke.edu/eaa/broadsides/B01/B0101/B0101-72dpi.ht
ml
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Have fun and
Yerkes Observatory
Yerkes Observatory (1910)
get started spying!