Valoració de la formació 'educació financera a les escoles'

Després de les cinc sessions organitzades per EFEC, és hora d'omplir el formulari de valoració.

Presentation of the project

Now it's time to design your own group presentation. It can be a ppt, openoffice, google or prezi presentation and it must contain all the topics we talked about during the tessellations project. Next day you'll present the slides to the other classmates. Send an email with the slides to the teacher. The presentation will be evaluated following a rubrics.

Tessellations with Geogebra

Now it's time to design our own tessellation using geogebra program. Watch the video and see if you can design a nice one. Once you have it finished, send the .ggb file to the teacher.

Designing our own Escher tessellation

Now it's time to design our own Escher tessellations. Watch the videos carefully. You can either choose to make a tessellation using a equilateral triangle as a basic figure (1st video) or using a square (2nd video). Now, be imaginative and try to build your own tessellations using a piece of paper, colors, ruler, a protractor and a pair of scissors.

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Extra work: Studying Escher's Lizards transformations

Knowing MC Escher

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He was the first person to introduce a mathematical structure on tilings and tessellations. Today we'll explore some of its tessellations, paintings and woodcuts and we'll know a little better why his work represented a new insight on the way artists look at geometry.

Here below you have some links which will help you knowing the figure of M.C. Escher:

• Escher's tessellations
• Official MC Escher homepage

Activities

After reading those links and watching the videos, start designing a presentation. It should talk about the following points:

1. Who was M.C. Escher? Write a small biography in 4 or 5 lines.
2. After visiting a certain place, Escher became fascinated by the regular division of the plane (tessellations). Which was this place? How this affected his own work?
3. Why do you think that there are mathematics in tessellations?
4. Which things do fascinated MC Escher and why?
5. What are 'Escher's Illusions'? Are you able to talk about them?
6. List and comment some of the artist's most famous works.

Let's craft our own theoretical physicists Xmas decorations!

Hi There!

Today we'll change subject and we'll talk about Physics. Did you ever heard about Albert Einstein, Marie Curie or Erwin Schrödinger?

Today, meanwhile googleing for Xmas ideas, I found a fantastic site with physicists Xmas decorations: Let's try to build them, today!

• Einstein's template
• Marie Curie's template
• Schrödinger template

I want to tile a kitchen!

Have you ever wondered how to tile a floor? This may not be a trivial question. Today we'll practice a little bit. We'll use diferent tilings and we'll discuss which is the best option for us.
Click on the activities sheet to start.