Christmas math: holiday tessellations Digital and Print bundle

Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas.

This bundle contains a digital and a print version of the activity - perfect for hybrid learning, distance-learning or in-class learning.

For information on tessellations go here: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/tessellation.html

PRINT VERSION:

Includes:

1. Christmas tree (moderately easy)
2. Bauble (medium)
3. Candy cane (easy)
4. Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
5. Geometric Christmas stocking (easy)
6. Elf (Hard)
7. Santa's head (medium)
8. 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.

Instructions:

A tessellation is when you cover a surface in pattern of flat shapes with NO GAPS.

Easy - print off the template (big or small) and cut it out on card. Students should try and use the template to make a repeating pattern with the shapes with NO gaps (see the Examples of how to tessellate the shape to see how it fits together). When they have filled out the whole page then they could color it in.

Harder - Give students one of the squared sheets without a template and get them to tessellate the given shape using the squares as a guide.

DIGITAL VERSION:

This product is a ZIP file which includes:

• A PDF with the Answers and Terms and Conditions
• A Link to a Google Slides version
• A Power point version

The slideshow contains 3 slides with instructions, hints & tips and 7 separate slides each with a different shape on.

Shapes include:

1. Christmas tree (moderately easy)
2. Bauble (medium)
3. Candy cane (easy)
4. Christmas stocking with curved edges (hard)
5. Elf (Hard)
6. Santa's head (medium)
7. present (easy)

Instructions:

A tessellation is when you cover a surface in pattern of flat shapes with NO GAPS. Students need to drag the shapes so that they fit exactly together with no gaps or overlaps. The first 3 shapes do not need to be rotated, the remaining ones will.