Friday 20 November 2015

Maths and Art Day in Y4H

We really enjoyed our maths and art day in year 4. As a class, we discussed the work of Escher, who was an artist and mathematician. In his work we recognised that he used shapes that fitted together to make a pattern, these shapes were identical, but were sometimes rotated. He would then make these shapes look like animals. This type of art is called tessellation. From this, we decided to investigate whether other polygons tessellate. We proved that all triangles and quadrilaterals can tessellate, which means they fit together without any gaps and they do not overlap. Next, we set out to make our own tessellating shape template and used it to create our own tessellating art in the style of Escher. Here are some pictures of us working hard on our investigations and our artistic creations.

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