Monday, 5 September 2011

Weds Sep 7th – Congruent Shapes and Tesselations

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To Develop understanding of Congruence and Tessellations

SUCCESS CRITERIA: You will be able to recognise shapes that are congruent and be able to create your own tessellations from 2D shapes

KEYWORDS: CONGRUENT, TESSELATION

STARTER: Use this BBC Bite Size Page to introduce the idea of Congruence as a class.

Now try and find the congruent shapes in this sheet Matching Congruent Shapes

LESSON: Show how to use tracing paper to help identify congruent shapes. Work through Ex 18A page 384

Check answers from back of text book.

What is a Tesselation: Definition

Designing Tessellations on Triangle Grids and Square Grids Have 20 mins to design some triangle patterns and square patterns on the grids – REMEMBER THE RULES OF TESSELATIONS

PLENARY: Use Tessellation Town to discuss more tesselations

No comments:

Post a Comment