Geometry
Chapter 6 from PECTAA Class 3 math.
There is more than one way to understand this. If you have only been taught one, you have been taught less than you deserve.
There is more than one way to understand this. If you have only been taught one, you have been taught less than you deserve.
Step out on Shahrah-e-Faisal in Karachi or onto GT Road near Rawalpindi for ten minutes and you will see one of the largest open air galleries in the world. Bedford trucks, Hino trucks, even small Suzuki pickups are painted from bumper to roof in flowers, peacocks, mountains, faces, and patterns inside patterns. Truck art is a Pakistani habit so old that nobody remembers when it began. Today you will look at it as a maker, not just a passenger.
Look closely at one panel of a truck. The border at the bottom of the door is one motif repeated. A small flower, a small flower, a small flower, twenty times across. That is a pattern of repetition. Inside the door there is often a peacock or a pair of fish. Look at the peacock. Each feather is a smaller curve made out of the same shape that the whole bird's body uses. The shape of the bird repeats inside the bird. Mathematicians call this self-similarity. The truck artist in Garhi Shahu calls it just how it is done.
Today you will copy one small panel and then invent your own. Take a piece of paper. Draw a rectangle the size of your palm. That is your panel. Inside the rectangle, draw a border one finger thick on all four sides. The border is where your repeated motif will live. The middle is where your main image will live. Choose anything from your life as the main image. A mango tree, a kite, a charpai, your sister's dupatta, the grill of your gate. The truck artist takes from real life and so will you.
Estimated time: 14 min