A basic concept of maths that is learnt thoroughly to bring forward. Tesslation links into our classroom setting through a number of different lessons and has a major link to pupils’ understanding of shapes. It allows for both art and maths to be taught at the same time, making maths fun and achieveable for those suffering from maths anxiety. Overall, tessellation is a great lesson to introduce differentiation within a classroom. When completed the pupils can colour these in and therefore maths and art have been interconnected in a lesson, helping those who have a passion in art have a profound understanding of maths.Įxample of tesselaltion star from the digital root of the 4 times tables. 4 times 6 = 24 which therefore this simplifies to 2 + 4 = 6, you can start at a point in the circle and continue to connect to the following dots (answer). By finding the different digital roots e.g. This is because they will have the basic understandings of shapes and therefore children have a sound enough understanding to bring this information forward to more complex areas such as tesselation.Īn example of a lesson that could be used for tessellation is multiplication to create stars. Furthermore, this will lead to their longitudinal coherence.

For example, if they enjoy art they believe it is more about art than the maths. By using a mixture of the two, children who feel anxious about maths will therefore find a task such as creating Islamic art, as a more relaxed approach to maths. Liping MA’s idea of inter-connectedness is highlighted through the use of maths and art. Boaler (2009), states that completing tasks in different ways therefore allows children to see that there are different methods to learning maths and therefore maths can be enjoyable for everyone. Using maths (tessellation) and interconnecting it with art is a great way of introducing a calm and settled environment to the classroom. These features can be introduced into a classroom. These represent and symbolise harmony and hum consciousness. For example, they particularly use equilateral triangles to create 6 to 12 points of stars. Islamic art focus on the creation of stars through tessellation. An example of this is shown below in the creation of a horse.Ī form of tessellation can particularly be seen in Islamic religion through mosaics and geometric patterns (Hames, 2017). These work similarly to regular shapes, however, the shapes must be cut and pasted to a different part of the shape to be able to interlock with the other identical shapes.

The second are irregular shapes, these are shapes such as pentagons, octagons and isosceles and scalene triangles (Maths is Fun, 2018). Regular shapes, unlike irregular, have the ability to interconnect as all the vertices meet one another and therefore create the sum of 360 degrees. These include squares, hexagons and equilateral triangles and therefore form a more simplistic tessellation, for example, in the form of chocolate squares. Tessellation can occur through two different types of shapes. If we look closer at items that we come into contact with on a regular basis, such as chocolate, footballs and kitchen tiles, we can see that there are shapes such as hexagons, squares and triangles that are joined together to form tessellation.īut how does tessellation link into a classroom setting? These shapes have to fit precisely beside one another, meaning they’ll leave no gaps. Tessellation is the arrangement of identical shapes that fit together perfectly to create a pattern. When Jonathan first said the word “tessellation”, I immediately thought what on earth is he on about?! Yet, following this lecture I now understand that tessellation is something that surrounds us.

Irregular tessellation patterns