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Ms Minogue

Polygons tessellation investigation

Grades: 2nd Grade
Subjects: Math

Student Instructions

1. Watch the video of Ms Minogue explaining the task. 2. Click on the link at the right-hand side of the slide to be taken to the investigation website. 3. Experiment with the different polygons - choose at least 4 to try to tessellate. Find out which ones do tessellate and which ones don't by trying to fit them together to make a pattern without gaps or overlaps. Remember, you can rotate or turn the shape. 4. Take a screenshot/s of your experiments. Remember to include the shapes that didn't work. 5. Put your screenshot/s on a new page in your SeeSaw post. Press record and tell us which shapes did tessellate and which shapes didn't tessellate.

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