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Listed under:  Mathematics  >  Geometry  >  Planes (Geometry)  >  Tessellations
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Tiling problem

  • TLF-IDA003558

Use this diagnostic task to assess if students use an array structure when working out how many tiles fit in a rectangle.

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Activities that promote Digital Technologies concepts and incorporate Numeracy: part 4: Tessellations

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This video provides suggestions for ways in which Digital Technologies can be used to develop students' learning in the Numeracy Learning Progression.

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Change course

  • TLF-IDA003516

Students identify transformations, and rotational and line symmetry, in regular and irregular polygons, and use transformations and symmetry to make a tessellating shape.

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Catalyst: Measuring our coastline

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How long is the Australian coastline? See Dr Derek Muller and Simon Pampena discussing the perimeter of the Australian coastline. Find out how the accuracy of that measurement depends on the length of the 'measuring stick' used. They discuss how a coastline is much like a fractal such as 'Koch's Snowflake'!

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Tessellating tiles

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In this teaching resource students learn how to construct shapes that will tessellate (or tile) a plane area. Starting with a regular shape known to tessellate (square, equilateral triangle, hexagon), students apply geometrical transformations to the sides of the shape to create new shapes that tessellate. There are links ...

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MathXplosion, Ep 4: Tessellation tricks

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Learn how two shapes from a repeating tile cause a pattern to undergo a metamorphosis. Create the illusion of one animal slowly transforming into another, line by line. Is it a bird? Is it a fish?

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