Tessellation Day
Tessellation is a perfect blend of Mathematics and Art. Use mathematical literacy to guide your artistic endeavours!
Tessellation is a perfect blend of Mathematics and Art. Use mathematical literacy to guide your artistic endeavours!
Playing with games and puzzles helps hone our ability to recognize and understand categories, patterns, and associations.
These games are based on the five and seven piece Tangram sets. The challenge is to complete four shapes (Short Game) or ten shapes (Long Game) in the least time possible.
Sort a variety of 2d shapes on a Carroll diagram. Sort by one or two conditions. Sort triangles – scalene, equilateral and isosceles. Sort quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons, as well as parallelograms, rhombus, kites and trapeziums. Also sort according to a shapes properties such as acute, obtuse, reflex or right angles and symmetry or whether it is a regular shape.
Sort a variety of 2D shapes on a Venn diagram. Sort by one or two conditions. Sort triangles – scalene, equilateral and isosceles. Sort quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons, as well as parallelograms, rhombus, kites and trapeziums. Also sort according to a shapes properties such as acute, obtuse, reflex or right angles and symmetry or whether it is a regular shape.