Name Aliens, and my hand crafted SYMMETRICAL puzzle :)
After staying late at school one night, I had my very own light bulb moment. I wanted to make a poster for out in the hallway to explain our Name Alien art display so that people would know why we had weird blobs of paint hanging in the halls for the entire school to see. I thought it would be neat to make the exact mirror image of this word so that it would make more sense what symmetry actually means. As I began to try to place the letters correctly, I realized it was a lot trickier than I thought it would be. I then thought to myself, "if its challenging, why not have the kids try it as a puzzle during my Math mini lesson!" --They LOVED IT! They took turns and worked together encouraging each other for each every step of the way. I couldn't have been more proud of my fabulous super star class.
-Miss Lena
-Miss Lena
Make your own symmetry puzzle!!
art+math= success
art+math= success
Step 1: Fold your paper in half and draw the line of symmetry right down the middle. Place your shapes along the line and start tracing them on one side of your paper. *Keep all shapes together and touching. | Step 2: Solve the one side using your tangram puzzle shapes. Students could only ask for more pieces if they used the correct name for each shape. square, triangle, hexagon, rhombus, parallelogram, and trapezoid. |
Solve the other side of your puzzle using the shapes, making it exactly symmetrical.
Don't trace the other side, just solve it. That way you can do it over and over again and trade it with a friend so you can solve each others puzzles. :)
Don't trace the other side, just solve it. That way you can do it over and over again and trade it with a friend so you can solve each others puzzles. :)