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Showing posts with label tessellation examples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tessellation examples. Show all posts

Monday, November 26, 2012

Tessellation & Activity


What is a tessellation? It is a pattern made of identical shapes. Today our professor taught us about what a tessellation is. Usually the shapes must fit together without any gaps and not overlap. It is a great activity for the students to learn. 

Our teacher told us when she was taught eighth grade. She taught about tessellation with the small activity. All students got a piece of white paper and they were supposed to make their shapes and it should cover the whole piece of paper.  

Then she showed us a small video about tessellations. This site has lots of educational games for students so that they learn at the same time.  Here is a small picture of what a tessellation should look like.


After learning about tessellation we had 2 activities using Geogebra.  Based on what we learned during our last class on translation and rotation. This site is a very good study material for students. Finally, we got one more worksheet with the link and the link was made by a teacher using Geogebra. We have to find the corresponding points on a graph. Then we have to  find the x-axis and y-axis and record it in the worksheet and few other questions.