The purpose of this lesson is to explore constructing tessellations.

Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 8 Blended Learning Math - Unit 8.5: Geometry - Constructing Tessellations.

The purpose of this lesson is to draw and classify shapes with line symmetry.

Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 9 Blended Learning Math - Unit 7.5: Similarity and Transformations - Reflections and Line Symmetry.

The goal of this task is to use geometry study the structure of beehives. Beehives have a tremendous simplicity as they are constructed entirely of small, equally sized walls. In order to as useful as possible for the hive, the goal should be to create the largest possible volume using the least amount of materials. In other words, the ratio of the volume of each cell to its surface area needs to be maximized. This then reduces to maximizing the ratio of the surface area of the cell shape to its perimeter.

The following resource contains the assets (or resources) to accompany the Sask DLC Mathematics 8 course. Please note that this is not the content of the course, but the assets used to support and deliver it. The files are organized in a zip folder and a collection.