Designing badges

Designing badges

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Working with Students
Further Resources
This task is about drawing a shape with the features you are given.

Using your felt pens/coloured pencils you are to design 4 new badges for Rātā School's student librarians. 

Use the grid paper below to design 4 different badges. Each badge must have the following things:

  • a total of 16 whole squares;
  • a rectangle shape;
  • at least 1 line of symmetry;
  • 3 colours only, these need to be symmetrical also.

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper and other equipment.
 
Equipment
One sheet of 1 cm × 1 cm grid paper; felt pens/coloured pencils.
  • This task assesses students' ability to design four symmetrical patterns using 2-dimensional shapes.
  • This assessment activity can be carried out with a group/class of students working independently.
  • Teacher can have photocopies of the grid paper ready prior to task.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Transformation
Keywords: 
symmetry, area, shape properties, drawing
Description of task: 
Students design school library badges by creating four symmetrical patterns using 2-dimensional shapes. A display board template is included for students to put their work on.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, sets 3-4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
a)

Students' designs will vary. Check each design against the criteria. Each badge must have:
 

  • an area of 16 cm
  • a rectangular shape
  • at least 1 line of symmetry
  • exactly 3 colours

Examples:
examples of possible patterns
Teaching and learning: