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...
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Tessellations Homework
In this tessellation worksheet, students draw tessellations using specified figures. This one page worksheet contains five multi-step problems.
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Tessellations Multiple Choice
In this tessellations learning exercise, students answer questions about the characteristics of tessellations. They identify polygons that will and will not tessellate. Students determine the sum of angles in a polygon...
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Visual Patterns in Tessellations Worksheet
In this tessellations instructional activity, students name 3 items that have tessellating patterns. Students then use the interactive tessellating program found at www.shodor.org to draw and answer 5 questions about their tessellations.
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Tessellations
In this tessellation worksheet, students create tessellations using stated figures. They rotate and transform given figures. This one-page worksheet contains 5 problems.
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Tessellations
For this tessellations worksheet, 10th graders complete 8 various types of problems related to a tessellation of the plane by regular polyhedral. First, they draw the vertex figures for each of three regular tessellations and determine...
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Tessellation
In this math learning exercise, students investigate tessellations. Students analyze geometric figures and indicate if the shapes tessellate. Students draw and color their own tessellating pattern.
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Tessellations
In this tessellation instructional activity, students explore tessellations and create a pattern without overlaps or spaces. After creating the tessellation, they color the shapes. This one-page instructional activity contains dot...
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Angles in Polygons
Polygons — it's all about the angles. Groups work with dynamic geometry software to find the sum of the measures of the angles of various polygons. After finding the information for several polygons, the groups generate a formula that...
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Bunting
How much fabric is necessary for bunting? Scholars use given dimensions of triangular bunting (hanging decorations) to determine the amount of fabric necessary to decorate a rectangular garden. The task requires pupils to consider...
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Tessellations
In this tessellations worksheet, 10th graders solve 6 different types of tessellation problems that includes drawing. First, they define polygon, regular polygon, tessellation, regular tessellation, and semi-regular tessellation. Then,...
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More on Tessellations
In this tessellations activity, 10th graders solve 3 different word problems that include creating various tessellations. First, they group pentagons around a vertex so the angles add up to 360 and determine whether the pentagons can...
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Tessellations & Transformations
In this tessellations and transformations activity, 10th graders solve 9 different problems that include various types of tessellations. First, they write examples from history of tessellations and name 3 artists. Then, students define...
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Problem Solving 2: Tessellations
In this tessellations activity, students identify shapes such as hexagons, octagons and other regular polygons and determine if the shapes will tessellate. They explore why some regular polygons tessellate while others do not. This...
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Transformations
Several practice exercises suitable for any geometry class working on transformation, symmetry, and tessellation -- especially visual representations of image translation, rotation, and reflection, symmetry, tessellations and tangrams --...
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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...
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Arctic Take 6
The magic number is six! Using a 6x table, young math stars practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two-digit numbers with the number six. This learning exercise also touches on making tessellations with hexagons.
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Geometry Practice: Transformations, Isometries, and Tessellations
Five pages for geometry practice relating to symmetry provide mathematicians with exercises on transformations and symmetry, properties of isometries, compositions of transformations, tessellations with regular polygons, and other...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern
For this tessellations worksheet, students solve 2 word problems where they use the "make a pattern strategy" to form tessellations from geometric shapes. There is scaffolding for the problem solving strategy.
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Tessellating the Hexagon
In this tessellating a hexagon worksheet, 10th graders complete 2 activities in creating a tessellation of a hexagon. They start off with the tessellation by the smallest pattern block and obtain other tessellations by replacing each two...
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Creating Tessellations
For this creating tessellations worksheet, 10th graders solve 2 word problems that include creating various tessellations. First, they explore the various techniques used to form tessellations, including triangles, quadrilaterals,...
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....
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Polynominoes
In this polynominoes worksheet, students solve 9 different types of polynominoes problems. First, they identify that a polynominoe is a polygon made from squares of the same size and connected to each square. Then, students determine how...
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Tessellations
In this tessellations worksheet, 10th graders complete 6 different problems that include constructing various tessellations. First, they show how to tessellate a plane with a square and then, a rectangle to tessellate the same plane....
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