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Mathematics

The PowerPoint presentation is designed to help teachers map the components of tessellating patterns. The power point can show simply the different ways of working and Knowledge and understanding required. The tessellating patterns PowerPoint presentation is for grade 4 -5 students as shown below in the QSA essential learning’s Mathematics Document. The key essential learning requirements as mentioned below can also be found in the QSA document below.

Essential Learnings Requirments

• "Symmetry and transformations involving flips, slides, turns, enlargements and reductions provide a basis for creating patterns, designs and __**tessellations"**__ (  Queensland Government Queensland Studies Authority (2009, February 5). //Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) Cross-curriculum priority//. Retrieved January 5, 2011 from [] )

[|QSA Essential Learnings Mathematics]

By using these documentations as a guided link to a Mathematics Lesson for Geometric Properties teachers are able to intergrade an ICT tool into the one lesson. An example of this lesson plan is show below as a preview of the design of the lesson that needs to be provided to support the above mentioned documents. After reading through this lesson the key elements of assessment is to grasp the concept of design. Children are able to produce creative evidence of their work using the ICT programme Microsoft Power Point. The expectations is, children need to gain knowledge and understanding of how to use the programme while also gaining knowledge and understanding of 2D shapes producing a tessellation pattern for each shape. By investigating by experimentation, the children of this age year level are able to evaulate and reflect on the understanding of how to produce and reason with a design concept by investigation the use of tools on the Microsoft Programme. After the children are able to grasp this activity suggested sites are able to be explored by this year level as another form of experimentation by design:
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 * [|http:www.coolmath.com/tesspage1.htm]
 * [|http:www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/grades_games_tess.html]
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 * http://ethemes.missouri.edu/theme/1791