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Online with Pattern Blocks 

• Create or select and then apply appropriate problem-solving strategies to solve problem from visual (draw a picture, create a graph), numerical (guess and check look for a pattern), and symbolic (write an equation) perspectives(MLO 5.4)

Technology Indicator:

• Students will employ technology resources to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning through the curriculum. (3.1)
• Students will employ modeling and simulation applications to solve problems in the real-world.(6.2)

 

Student Outcomes

• Students will understand and apply the concepts of fractions.
• Students will develop an understanding of relationships between geometric shapes.
• Students will represent and use numbers in a variety of equivalent forms.

• Can you name these geometric figures?

• Today you will experiment online with the shapes. While you experiment online look for relationships between each shape. (Click and drag the shapes to place them on the grid.)

• Using the shapes from online, answer questions using the "Determining Relationships Worksheet".

You have been selected to create a mural using the pattern block shapes. (triangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, hexagon) There are some special requirements:

• The mural must have an area equal to 15 square units.
• The hexagon has an area equal to 2 square units.

Your mural should reflect the relationships that you have learned from completing Step One.

Once you have finished creating the mural that has an area equal to 15 square units, print your page from the internet.

Click here to CREATE MURAL.

 

Think about the importance of math and the role it played in your creation. On the back of your mural, write a note to a relative explaining how you created it.  Be sure to include some key terms: fractions, geometric shapes, relationships and area.