Click here for the Tessellations Reptiles and Fractals workshop video. It starts, for young learners, with filling animal shapes with simple tiles. It continues with investigation of why there are only 7 Frieze patterns and 17 Wallpaper patterns and then investigates period parallellograms. Then there are examples of reptile tiling and fractals.
These Global Teacher Empowerment (GTEN) videos and the AIMING HIGH Inclusion and Home Learning Guides provide resources for differentiation and inclusion, with guidance and learning activities that follow a spiral learning pathway from early years to leaving school. For primary teaching we lay the foundations for later learning. We plant the seeds, and we begin to cultivate insights, visualization, knowledge and understanding of mathematics. Practical experiences underpin later abstract thinking. Secondary teachers can use some of the same activities with learners who have not mastered the basics and there are more learning activities to build knowledge, understanding and skills for lifelong learning.
Click here for the pdf of slides used in the video.
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The animations and much of the content of this session is drawn from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sierpinski carpet made up of 8 copies of itself
A dragon curve made up of 4 smaller copies of itself.
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