Hers’s my latest Family Math Night Collaborative Project. This one involved play dough! The video version where I give the step-by-step directions is below. Click the image to the left for the lesson plan. .
I love M.C. Escher! I have a whole book on his work and love to share it with my students when we’re studying angle measurement. That’s because we’re going to tie math and art together through modifying polygons similar to how M.C. Escher did it in some of his paintings. It’s all about tessellating shapes and angles. Using pattern blocks, I show students how shapes tessellate. See photo below. Then, I have students determine the angle measurement of each of…