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Student Activities

• Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
  (Includes examples of 4th grade student work)
  http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/index.html

  These are very helpful in describing infinite and rich possibilities of repeating elements - not visually restrictive at all:

  • The Four Basic Symmetries
    http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/symmetry/basic.html
  • Border Patterns
    http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/symmetry/bp.html
  • Field Patterns
    http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/symmetry/fp.html
    Ways that the same element can be repeated for infinite variations - Demonstrated graphically and through examples of Oriental rugs
    Students can try to find the patterns.
  • The Rug Gallery
    http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/gallery
    
    
• Synthesis & Style Story
  • The students will design on paper a piece of furniture that they would like to have in their room.
  • The furniture must have some purpose.
  • The furniture must have something in decoration or shape or function that tells us something about the student or the student's family.
  • The furniture should borrow at least one element from one of the pieces of furniture that we have seen.
  • The student will write a narrative paragraph describing his/her invention.
  • **If time allows, the students could construct their furniture in 3-D.