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Numeracy Lesson 4
Scale and proportion
Introduction
Watch the video for an introduction to the lesson.
Understanding the tasks
Rating the tasks
This lesson contains a few activities. Each activity will have one or more tasks. These tasks have been given a rating.
Some of the tasks in this lesson are must do. These are important to help you understand the introductory ideas or skills.
Have a go at the should do tasks and reach out to your friends or teacher if you need some advice. These will usually take a bit longer to complete than must do tasks.
Could do tasks will probably take you some extra time and might need you to get creative or problem solve. We strongly encourage you to try these.
Activity 1 - Scale factor
Task 1 - Understanding and applying scale
Work through the interactive to refresh your understand of scale and scale factor.
Task 2 - Scale factor puzzle
Remember:
In mathematics we define transformations as actions that change a shape using rotation (turns), reflection (flips), translation (slides) or dilation (resize or enlargement).
Task 3 - The dilation transformation
Explore dilation using the embedded graph.
Choose Dilation using the black slider.
Use the red slider to change the scale factor of the dilation.
Complete the questions on the Do you understand dilation? page in the interactive underneath the graph.
When you have answered all the questions, click the blue arrow in the bottom of the interactive.
Click the button to create a document containing your answers.
Click Export text to download a word document containing your work, which you can then share with your teacher.
Task 4 - Applying scale factor
Activity 2 - Scale in art
Task 1 - Create a Kandinsky inspired artwork
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist who is known as one of the pioneers of abstract art.
Watch the video, Using Desmos to create an artwork. The video will explain what a Kandinsky inspired artwork looks like and how to use Desmos to make one.
Open the Create a Kandinsky inspired artwork activity page on the Desmos website in a new tab.
Use the skills you learned in the video to create your own artwork.
Take a screen shot of your creation so that you can share it with your teacher.
Task 2 - Scale in art
Artists have always played with scale.
Watch this short video about Tatsuya Tanaka's miniature dioramas.
Then explore Claus Oldenburg's site to see his large scale art.
Complete this Google slide, Art scale, to analyse the scale used by these artists.
Click on the button above to open a new tab and view the Google Slides.
Click on the Use Template button to create a copy for you to edit.
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any handwritten work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.