Quilts, Quilts, and More Quilts!

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Quilts, Quilts, and More Quilts!

• Dr. Janet H. Caldwell
• Rowan University

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Quilts

• Shapes
• Fractions
• Remainders
• Transformations
• Border Patterns
• Wallpaper Patterns

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Four Patch Block
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Shapes from Quilts
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Class Quilts at Rowan
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Jennifer Smiths Grade 8 Class
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Fractions from Quilts

• You have 4 white triangles and 4 pink ones to
  make a quilt square.
• How many different designs can you make?
• How many ways can you shade one-half?

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Remainders
1 2 3 4
1 1 2 3 4
2 2 4 6 8
3 3 6 9 12
4 4 8 12 16
Pick a number and decide whether to add or
multiply to generate a table. Pick a divisor and
color the cells based on the remainder.
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Transformations

• Translations
• Reflections
• Rotations
• Glide Reflections

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Border Patterns
Translation
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Border Patterns
Vertical Reflection
Glide Reflection
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Border Patterns
Rotation
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Border Patterns
Vertical Reflection Glide Reflection
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Border Patterns
Horizontal Reflection Vertical Reflection
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Border Patterns
Horizontal Reflection Translation
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Border Patterns
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Hawaiian Quilts
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Underground Railroad Quilt Code Patterns
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Materials Available at

• www.rowan.edu/mcsiip

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Road to Oklahoma
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Wallpaper Patterns

• Squares - 10 patterns
• Half-squares 2 patterns
• Rhombus - 1 pattern
• Half-rhombus 2
• Equilateral Triangle - 1 pattern
• Half 1 pattern

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Translation Symmetry (p1)
Flock of Geese
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Midpoint Rotation Symmetry (p2)
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Pinwheel Symmetry (p4)

• Aurora
• Jinny Beyer
• 1989

Friendship Star
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Glide Symmetry (pg)
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Double Glide Symmetry (pgg)
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Mirror Symmetry (pm)
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Staggered Mirror Symmetry (cm)
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Glided Staggered Mirror (pmg)
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Double Mirror Symmetry (pmm)

• Blue Star Sapphire
• Jinny Beyer
• 1983

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Staggered Double Mirror (cmm)

• Linda Marshall

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Mirrored Pinwheel (p4g)
From Steve Edwards, Southern Polytechnic State
University, Marietta GA
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Traditional Block (p4m)
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Threefold Rotation (p3)
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Mirror 3-fold Rotation (p3m1)
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Three Rotations a Mirror (p31m)
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Rotation Symmetry (p6)

• Day Lilies
• Jinny Beyer
• 1998

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Kaleidoscope (p6m)

• The Pieced Snowflake
• Paula Nadelstern