Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Thursday 15th Sep – Tessellations and Translations

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: TO Consolidate understanding of a tessellation and discover how to describe a Translation on a grid

SUCCESS CRITERIA: YOU will be able to make a regular pattern with no gaps using the shapes given and You will be able to draw the image of a shape after a given translation

KEYWORDS: Tesselation, Translation, Vector

STARTER: In your exercise books show that these two shapes tessellate

LESSON: Using this Notebook file demonstrate and explain what is meant by a translation – ie a movement on a grid.

Have a go at Question 1 and 2 on page 389 in your exercise book. Check Answers

If Time Talk about describing a Translation using a vector

PLENARY: Check Understanding of a translation with students having to come up to IWB and move a shape given a translation

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