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How could you create a tessellation using rotations?
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Creating a tessellation in Geometer's Sketchpad
Published: 02/29/12
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How do I engage students in mathematics through technology?
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Students have frequent access to many different technological devices so we must try to use this to our advantage, rather than fight it. Geometer's Sketchpad is a wonderful tool for engaging students and has a wealth of resources already developed.
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What's the context for an activity like this?
Hey Cameron,
This program is great! I'm not a math teacher, so seeing geometry come to life like this was very engaging. I wish I had used programs like this when I was in school! It seems to me that a program like this allows students to go "deep" into a topic (or even one shape), and that's and that matches Common Core Instructional Shift 4 for Math.
I'm wondering what the context is for a problem like this? I'm an instructional Coach at school, and one of the teachers I work with is a geometry teacher. We often work on how to make his content more relevant to kids--and I was wondering if you can explain to me what the task or problem is students are asked to complete?
Thanks for sharing,
Beth
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I use this in the transformational geometry unit as part of understanding translations by given vectors. Students usually don't make the connection of each point of a figure moving by a given vector in a static environment like a chalkboard, but showing a dynamic environment like sketchpad allows them to easily make that connection. The unit typically ends in having them create their own tessellations by hand and using translations or rotations to tessellate the plane.