Using Navajo Stick Game to Teaching Place Value

Abstract

It is said that the Navajo stick game (Tsidil) was a game made by changing woman in the first world for women. Tsidil is a women’s game but men and women can play this game. It is said that when changing woman went back to the west and took her people with her they became sad. She created this game for them to play.

Because of the need for deep conceptual understanding and application of numbers, quantities, and operations (as demonstrated above in the assessment data), I want to write a unit plan on place value using the Navajo Stick game. This is a unit plan for third grade. The purpose of this unit is to teach place value concepts through the Navajo stick game. This unit will be taught in the second or third quarter in the winter months because the Navajo stick game is played only in the winter season.