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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Art Tessellations

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at tessellation artists, including M.C. Escher, Robert Fathauer, and Roger Penrose. This is followed by a discussion of fractals and their similarities and differences to tessellations, and links to lessons and resources on...
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Tantalizing Tessellations!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this unit, students will be taught several techniques for creating tessellations and will respond to their learning in their Math journals.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Polygons and Tessellations

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of polygons and tessellations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
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Other

Center for Technology and Teacher Education:exploring and Creating Tessellations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is a Geometer's Sketch Pad lesson plan where students explore tessellations through reflections, rotations, and translations.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Tessellations

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Tessellations are explained and described at this website. Three basic rules are given for creating tessellations.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Tessellate!

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This creative applet allows you to tessellate variations you create starting with either a triangle, rectangle or hexagon. Directions are only a click away.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tessellations Geometry and Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with tessellations and their geometric concepts. Upper elementary and middle school students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and culture.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grade 8

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifying tessellations and figures that will tessellate.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grades 9 10

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about tessellations and how to determine whether or not a figure will tessellate.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Determining Unit Shapes From Tessellations

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video to determine unit shapes from a tessellation and then take an assessment to test their knowledge.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Determining Whether a Given Shape Can Be Tessellated

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video to determine if a two dimensional shape can be tessellated and then take a quick assessment to test their skills.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wallpaper Tessellations

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry uses tessellations to wallpaper his apartment.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grades 8 10

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Tessellate figures.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Polygons and Polyhedra: Tessellations

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on tessellations, a tessellation is a geometric pattern that covers a surface without gaps or overlaps. They can be seen everywhere in nature such as a honeycomb or a tortoise shell.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Symmetry and Tessellations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a brief overview of the different types of symmetry and of how to tessellate a shape.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: What Are Tessellations?

For Students 6th - 8th
A resource describing tessellations with definitions and examples.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: What Is a Tessellation?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
The Math Forum defines and illustrates geometric tessellation.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Tessellation Tutorials

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a wealth of tutorials regarding tessellation. Content ranges from basic definitions of what tessellation is, to the math behind it, to various learning activities.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Geometry in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan explores tessellations and their geometric properties. Plenty of interactive support is available for students. Lots of resources for teachers to use.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Tessellations

For Students 9th - 10th
Get independent practice working with tessellations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Visual Patterns in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan examines the mathematical nature of art, tilings and tessellations. Students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and our...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Tessellations: Triangle Tessellation

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore tessellations and whether a polygon can tessellate. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tessellations and Tile Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students understand that a tessellation is covering of a plane with a pattern of figures so there are no overlaps or gaps. They draw quadrilaterals and triangles and explore monohedral, dihedral, and trihedral tessellating patterns.
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Tessellation World of Makoto Nakamura

For Students 9th - 10th
There's more to do here than just look at Escher-like tessellations. You can watch animated tessellations and put together puzzles.

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