Professional Development Materials

How to use Virtual Bead Loom to teach math topics: Cartesian coordinates, transformations, analytic geometry, slope, angle perimeter, area, percentage and iteration. Download handout.

List of activities where you can connect art/culture and mathematics in your classroom using beadwork

"Native American Beadwork"

An article published in the Winds of Change magazine (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) discussing the meaning of math in beadwork

Dancing Numbers

Cultural, cognitive, and technical instructional perspectives on the development of native American mathematical and scientific pedagogy

4th grade math lesson evaluation using Virtual Bead Loom

Virtual Bead Loom - California Standards

The Virtual Bead Loom investigations and lessons meet all six goals for mathematics education for California Standards