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Moja Means One:
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Author: Muriel Feelings Publisher/Date: Puffin Books; 1971 ISBN: 0-14-054662-6 Grade Levels Recommended for Use: 5-8 Brief Summary: Learn to count to ten in Swahili. Pictures enhance each number word. Topics: number systems; problem solving; logic & reasoning; measurement; conversion Suggested Activities: 1. Have the students draw cards from a hat with Swahili number word as well as other number words in other languages semi-familiar to the students. Have students arrange themselves in numerical order from one to ten. Students may also discuss the root origins of number words and how they are related or not. 2. Play mankala, a traditional African game with stones or pits and is played in holes scooped in the dirt. It takes problem solving and thinking strategies to play. 3. Swahili is spoken in Tanzania, a country in Africa. Tanzania is home to the tallest mountain in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters). Use a conversion rate to change meters to yards and then to feet find out how tall Mt. Kilimanjaro is in our standard measurement. Compare its height to the highest mountains in the United States and in your own state. WEBSITES: Play mankala
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