Tessellating Lizard
Create a template for a repeating pattern from a square in a tessellation activity that combines art and mathematics.
Standards
Idea Sheets are cross-referenced to subjects listed in the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and California Content Standards.
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Mathematical Practices|||3.G.1. Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Geometry||Reason With Shapes And Their Attributes|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 4||Mathematical Practices|||4.G.3. Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 4||Geometry||Draw And Identify Lines And Angles, And Classify Shapes By Properties Of Their Lines And Angles|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 5||Mathematical Practices|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 6||Mathematical Practices|||6.G.1. Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 6||Geometry||Solve Real-World And Mathematical Problems Involving Area, Surface Area, And Volume|||6.G.3. Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 6||Geometry||Solve Real-World And Mathematical Problems Involving Area, Surface Area, And Volume|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 7||Mathematical Practices|||7.G.2. Draw (freehand, with ruler and protractor, and with technology) geometric shapes with given conditions. Focus on constructing triangles from three measures of angles or sides, noticing when the conditions determine a unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 7||Geometry||Draw, Construct, And Describe Geometrical Figures And Describe The Relationships Between Them|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Mathematical Practices|||8.G.1. Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations:||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Geometry||Understand Congruence And Similarity Using Physical Models, Trans- Parencies, Or Geometry Software|||8.G.2. Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Geometry||Understand Congruence And Similarity Using Physical Models, Trans- Parencies, Or Geometry Software|||8.G.3. Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Geometry||Understand Congruence And Similarity Using Physical Models, Trans- Parencies, Or Geometry Software|||8.G.4. Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two- dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Geometry||Understand Congruence And Similarity Using Physical Models, Trans- Parencies, Or Geometry Software|||8.G.5. Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the angle-angle criterion for similarity of triangles. For example, arrange three copies of the same triangle so that the sum of the three angles appears to form a line, and give an argument in terms of transversals why this is so.||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 8||Geometry||Understand Congruence And Similarity Using Physical Models, Trans- Parencies, Or Geometry Software|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Mathematical Practices|||HS.G.CO.2. Represent transformations in the plane using, e.g., transparencies and geometry software; describe transformations as functions that take points in the plane as inputs and give other points as outputs. Compare transformations that preserve distance and angle to those that do not (e.g., translation versus horizontal stretch).||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Congruence||Experiment With Transformations In The Plane|||HS.G.CO.3. Given a rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, or regular polygon, describe the rotations and reflections that carry it onto itself.||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Congruence||Experiment With Transformations In The Plane|||HS.G.CO.4. Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments.||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Congruence||Experiment With Transformations In The Plane|||HS.G.CO.5. Given a geometric figure and a rotation, reflection, or translation, draw the transformed figure using, e.g., graph paper, tracing paper, or geometry software. Specify a sequence of transformations that will carry a given figure onto another.||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Congruence||Experiment With Transformations In The Plane|||HS.G.CO.6. Use geometric descriptions of rigid motions to transform figures and to predict the effect of a given rigid motion on a given figure; given two figures, use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions to decide if they are congruent.||Common Core Mathematics||High School||Congruence||Understand Congruence In Terms Of Rigid Motions
2.1 Identify, describe, and classify polygons (including pentagons, hexagons, and octagons).||CA Mathematics||Grade 3||03. Measurement and Geometry||2.0 Students describe and compare the attributes of plane and solid geometric figures and use their understanding to show relationships and solve problems.|||3.4 Identify figures that have bilateral and rotational symmetry.||CA Mathematics||Grade 4||03. Measurement and Geometry||3.0 Students demonstrate an understanding of plane and solid geometric objects and use this knowledge to show relationships and solve problems.|||3.8 Know the definition of different quadrilaterals (e.g., rhombus, square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid).||CA Mathematics||Grade 4||03. Measurement and Geometry||3.0 Students demonstrate an understanding of plane and solid geometric objects and use this knowledge to show relationships and solve problems.
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