Making tessellating patterns

Making tessellating patterns

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about tessellating patterns.

Practical task

  • Cut out all the triangles and hexagons below.
  • Arrange all the shapes on a piece of paper so that they make a repeating pattern.
  • Make sure there are no gaps in between your shapes.
  • When you have made your pattern, glue the shapes on to the page.
  • You may leave out one or two shapes if you want to.
  • Ask for another page of shapes if you need more.
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Task administration: 

This task is completed with paper and scissors.

Equipment

Scissors; glue; photocopied pages of shapes; one blank A4 sheet of paper per student.

  • Give each student the page of photocopied shapes and read this page of instructions.
  • If you don't see a repeat in the student's pattern, ask them to explain how it might repeat before marking.
  • Some students may need an extra page of shapes to show that their pattern repeats.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Transformation
Keywords: 
tessellations, patterns
Description of task: 
In this practical task, students arrange triangles and hexagons to create tessellating patterns.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, set 3
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
   
3 marks
or
2 marks
or
1 mark		 Fits all the triangles and hexagons together to make a repeating pattern.
 
Fits all the triangles and hexagons together to make a repeating pattern but there are 1 or 2 errors in the repeat of the pattern.

Fits all the triangles and hexagons together to make a pattern but the pattern does not repeat.