Chapter 14

Tessellations

4th Grade: Chapter 14 Outline

Week 38

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:

Students will know and understand:

    • Tessellation
    • Repeated Shape
    • Slide
    • Rotate
    • Flip
    • Modify

Skills:

Students Will:

    • Recognize and make tessellations.
    • Identify the unit shape used in a tessellation.
    • Tessellate shapes in different ways.

Assessment

Chapter 14 Assessment: Tessellations

Formative Test: Common

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.