• Students design and make:
- a tipare (head band), describing any translations or symmetry it possesses;
- Christmas wrapping paper involving rotational symmetry of order 3, as well as
translation;
- a kowhaiwhai pattern, involving translations and reflections and using, for
example, the mango (hammerhead shark) as the basic motif.
Using this example, teachers could assess students’ ability to:
- describe the reflection or rotational symmetry of a figure or object (G4);
- use equipment appropriately when exploring mathematical ideas (MP4);
- use their own language, and mathematical language and diagrams, to explain
mathematical ideas (MP4)