Geometrical Shapes in Tongan Tapa Cloth

Tongan Ngatu (Tapa cloths) - Tapa Cloths from The Pacific

Designers who make patterns for material sometimes use different geometric shapes.

In these different samples of material, the designers have used different types of triangles.

Can you identify the different triangles they have used in their design?

What attributes are the same? What attributes are different?

TĀKUPU | COMMENTS

Mr Lou Reddy - WPS Tumuaki ( Principal) Ka rawe te mahi pangarau e te Takahē tamariki mā! Cool work in your maths Takahē kids! So amazing to hear students using mathematical argumentation to explain their answers too. Keep up the great work. Message from Room 4 St Mary's School - Cheryl Torrie Kia ora Takahe, We are Room 4 at St Mary's School. We are your blogging buddies. Good job for learning about making a whole says Elissea. That was very cool how you made wholes says Vinnie. I like your work says Lili. I like your fractions. I learnt that you can make a whole from rectangles cut as fractions says Fiske. R4 St Marys School Lou Reddy ( WPS Principal) Ei mua, mako rai - welldone Takahe maths champions. Being a kaitiaki while doing maths and composting.

Lou Reddy (WPS TUMUAKI) - Kia ora whaea, ngā mihi nui as this is such special student voice. The students are cooperating, sharing and showing intelligent mathematical reasoning. Keep it up Ka rawe ngā tamariki o Takahe. Lou Reddy - "Well done Antonia, Taylen, Setu and Tehillah. You are all sharing in your Maths learning in a wonderful way. Thanks Mrs Alluri for the Matariki Maths post."

Danielle - Taylen's Mum commented - "Great explanation Taylen. I liked how you worked out how to count them in twos. Well done."

Lou Reddy- "Some of the Takahe kids visited me this week with their learning and wow they have really improved in their explanations and argumentative reasoning in Maths. Well done Mrs Alluri and the DMIC crew of Takahe."

Room 9 at Glen Taylor school - "Fantastic explanations and mathematical reasoning! Ka Pai! from Room 9 at Glen Taylor school."

Sue Scott commented on "Week 4 - Fractions -"Kia ora Takahe Mathematical Thinkers. We liked the number line that you looked at. We could see circles and half circles too. We thought you all did very well counting in halves, ka pai, great job. We would like to try counting in halves too. Thanks for sharing your great learning with us."

Antonia-"Thank you for helping us from Antonia"

Samantha Bound - "WOW! I enjoyed listening to you all participate and communicate the ways you worked it out. Have you thought about using explain everything so you can draw/write while talking? Would be great to see the process! Keep up the wonderful work Takahe and Mrs Alluri!"

Asi Fifita-"I like the way you did the graph and shared your data using a bar graph"

Antonia Whanau- "Awesome ANTONIA. I like your work on the Maths blog"

WPS Takahe Mathematical Thinkers

Takahe Mathematical Thinkers

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Tongan Ngatu (Tapa cloths) - Tapa Cloths from The Pacific

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