Section outline

  • Kia ora 8C2

    TERM 2   WEEK 8

    From this week we are taking a leap into integrating our mathematical and art abilities to generate patterns using transformations.



    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Tessellate regular and irregular shapes and simple patterns


    Activities:

    1. What are tessellations?
    2. Teacher projects tessellations and asks students, "What can you see/What do you observe?
    3. How to tessellate a shape or pattern
    4. Can all kinds of shapes and patterns be tessellated?
    5. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4zLz1DtkM
    6. Online practice - https://www.transum.org/software/Investigations/tessellation.asp
    7. Practising tessellations
    8. Eastle 


    Homework:

    Maths Buddy


    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING tessellations constructed with regular and non-regular polygons