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Lesson 1

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1. Quick Quiz - evidence of learning by pre-testing and post-testing knowledge acquisition. The same quiz would be used at the end of the unit of work.

1.a) Provide some necessary definitions - polygons, regular, tessellation, symmetry, rotation, translation, reflection

1.b) What regular polygons will tessellate and why? What regular polygons will not tessellate and why? (See Fathauer lessons for exact explanations - Appendix B and available on-line at www.tessellations.com/Polygons1.html and  www.tessellations.com/Polygons2.html  )

 

This lesson could be completed in the classroom, by teachers printing instructions for specific tasks from the on line links OR by hands-on exploration of the question in 1b using tessellation tiles and shapes OR could be completed in the computer room, utilising this resource to access the lessons on-line.
Judy Beal
Nov 2000
jbeal@wbeachps.sa.edu.au