Christmas maths: festive tessellations
Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!).
Includes:
Christmas tree (moderately easy)
Bauble (medium)
Candy cane (easy)
Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
Geometric christmas stocking (easy)
Elf (Hard)
Santas head (medium)
present (easy)
For each shape there is the following types of sheets:
An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off
An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off
A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4
A big template which are on their own A4 page
Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.
The geometric Christmas stocking is available as a free product here.
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