Illustrative Mathematics
Regular Tessellations of the Plane
Bringing together the young artists and the young organizers in your class, this lesson takes that popular topic of tessellations and gives it algebraic roots. After covering a few basic properties and definitions, learners attack the...
Curated OER
Navajo Weaving: A Lesson in Math and Tradition
Combine geometry and tradition with a lesson that spotlights Navajo weaving. The book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link hooks scholars before watching a video of Navajo people tending their sheep and beginning...
Illustrative Mathematics
Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives
Young geometers and biologists investigate the math of nature in an activity that is just the bee's knees. Participants will study the tessellations of hexagons in a beehive, along with the natural rationale behind the specific shape....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Triangle Tessellation
[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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: What Is a Tessellation?
The Math Forum defines and illustrates geometric tessellation.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Tessellation Artist
Students will have fun making tessellations in this activity, which they can then print out.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Hexagon Tessellation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students determine whether a hexagon can tessellate or not. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Tessellating Squares
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students determine if squares can tessellate. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Architecture: Community Geometry
Identify architectural structures and objects in the community that represent different figures and types of geometry and mathematics.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Visit Tessellation Town on Tile Island!
Go to Tessellation Town on Tile Island and create a variety of tessellations.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
University of California
Geometry Junkyard: Dissection Tiling
A great and very informative article about dissection tiling or tessellation.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Envelopes
Explore tessellations with real world applications in this activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Figure out what shape you would use to create a legal envelope from a single sheet of paper. Then discover how...