Chapter 14
Tessellations
4th Grade: Chapter 14 Outline
4th Grade: Chapter 14 Outline
Week 38
Week 38
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How can I identify tessellations, which are patterns formed by repeated shapes, to cover a surface without gaps or overlaps?
- How can I identify the repeated shape used in tessellations?
- How can I tessellate shapes in different ways to form patterns?
Content:
Content:
Students will know and understand:
- Tessellation
- Repeated Shape
- Slide
- Rotate
- Flip
- Modify
Skills:
Skills:
Students Will:
- Recognize and make tessellations.
- Identify the unit shape used in a tessellation.
- Tessellate shapes in different ways.
Upon completion of Unit 14:
- 4.OA.C.5. Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself.
- MP.1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- MP.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- MP.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- MP.4. Model with mathematics.
- MP.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
- MP.6. Attend to precision.
- MP.7. Look for and make use of structure.
- MP.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.