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Lesson Account: A lesson focusing on 2D shapes and tessellations.

Subject: Mathematics.
Age of students: 10-11 years.
Hardware: iPads and Interactive whiteboard.
Software: ‘Tessellation Creator’ app.
Functionalities: Sending and Displaying.
Time: 1 hour.
FaSMEd Partner: University of Nottingham.

Summary
The lesson focused on clarifying concepts and terminology about 2-D shapes before students explored the concept of tessellation by carrying out their own investigations into which regular shapes tessellate.

Resources

Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk