Tessellations
Tessellate an Animal or Object
Tessellate three projects to show Mrs. Brandal. When done, you can select a tesselation coloring sheet.
Vocabulary
Tessellation/Tiling: The overall concept of covering a plane with shapes.
Tile: The individual shape or set of shapes that repeat in the tessellation.
Vertex: A point where the corners of the tiles meet.
Angle: The measure of the space between two lines or surfaces that meet at a point (vertex). In tessellations, the angles of the shapes meeting at a vertex must add up to 360 degrees.
Regular Polygon: A polygon with all sides and all angles equal (e.g., square, equilateral triangle, regular hexagon).
Semi-Regular Tessellation: A tessellation made using two or more regular polygons.
Uniform Tessellation: A tessellation where the arrangement of shapes and angles is the same at every vertex.
Transformation: Mathematical operations that manipulate shapes, including:
Overlap: When shapes in a tessellation cover the same area.
M.C. Escher: An artist famous for using tessellations in his artwork.
Tessellation/Tiling: The overall concept of covering a plane with shapes.
Tile: The individual shape or set of shapes that repeat in the tessellation.
Vertex: A point where the corners of the tiles meet.
Angle: The measure of the space between two lines or surfaces that meet at a point (vertex). In tessellations, the angles of the shapes meeting at a vertex must add up to 360 degrees.
Regular Polygon: A polygon with all sides and all angles equal (e.g., square, equilateral triangle, regular hexagon).
Semi-Regular Tessellation: A tessellation made using two or more regular polygons.
Uniform Tessellation: A tessellation where the arrangement of shapes and angles is the same at every vertex.
Transformation: Mathematical operations that manipulate shapes, including:
- Reflection: A mirror image of a shape.
- Rotation: Turning a shape around a fixed point.
- Translation: Sliding a shape without rotating or reflecting it.
Overlap: When shapes in a tessellation cover the same area.
M.C. Escher: An artist famous for using tessellations in his artwork.
