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There will be no Mathex this week. Your Mrs Pansy's Garden presentations will be held on Tues 23 Sept. Your group must be ready to present All this should be practised and ready to go.
 * birds eye view of the garden
 * 3d view of the garden
 * mathematical logo

Write a reflection on how your group found this project. Write about how well you worked together, what your outcomes were and what learning took place. These reflections are going to be recorded on Garageband for your e-portfolios.

This week on Friday is Talk Like a Pirate Day. In celebration of this day you are going to make a Pirate's Hidden Treasure Map. The clues for this map will be mathematical. Try to work out a code using mathematical symbols and formulae to allow someone to follow a treasure route around the map. We will solve each other's treasure maps next week.

Also for this week, you will be working on symmetry and tessellation. Read [|this website] You are going to design a duvet for your bed using symmetry and tessellation. Look at some of these designs and if you can find reflective symmetry, rotational symmetry and tessellation. Use these elements as the basis for your duvet design. The 3 elements must be present in your duvet design, and you musth be able to identify them in your presentation.

Homework e-portfolio update: 1. You will need to have your treasure map ready to be scanned or photographed to be put into your eportfolio. 2. You will need to have your duvet design scanned or photographed and uploaded into your eportfolio. 3. Both these will need to have reflections about what you did and explanations about your thinking and learning added to the page.

e-portfolio update: You will need to make sure the following have been included in your e-portfolio. 1. Your weekly reflection log. The template can be found in KnowledgeNet>Year 7 Mathex>Mathex>Weekly Reflection. 2. Copy this template onto a new page in your mathex e-portfolio. 3. Fill in the reflection for Week 8. 4. Save this page and link it to a new heading on your Mathex title page - Learning Log or Weekly Reflections. 5. If you went to the Casio Mathex Competition, write your reflection and record it in garageband podcast. Export as a m4a and put it in the Year 7 Mathex folder. Let Mrs Shearing know. 6. Look in KnowledgeNet>Year 7 Mathex>Resources>Mathex Competition and copy the code. 7. Make a new page called Casio Mathex Competition and paste in the code. 8. Link this page to a new link on your title page,