Square Colour Tiles

Exploring Shape, colour, patterns and designs.

We have noticed the children showing a special interest in colourful loose parts that can be used to create patterns and pictures.

To help them explore this further, we decided to give the children frames, trays and square colour tiles in four colours: red, blue, green and yellow. These tiles are a great resource that can be used creatively to explore a range of mathematical concepts.

One student decided to sort the heap of tiles into the 4 different colours to make it easy to find the ones his friends needed.

The children began by placing squares around the edge of the tray and then working their way towards the center, each square shape was a different colour.

Then, they began to create other patterns. Straight line colour patterns, repeating patterns and other creative designs using the 4 colour tiles.  

The children were encouraged to share and talk about the different designs they created. This allowed the children to extend their mathematical vocabulary and knowledge of concepts about pattern, number, symmetry, shape, size and design. We noticed the children working collaboratively, sharing the resources, taking turns and caring for the material they used. 

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