Students are given pattern blocks and are told to create a tile design for a building to use on the floor. Printable lesson.

From February 2003, a Q&A discussing damaged tiles and other problems that the Space Shuttle Columbia faced during its re-entry and subsequent explosion.

Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.

Continuing with the creation of the Memory Game is creating the tiles to flip--click-flipping tiles, restricting tile flips, delay-flipping tiles, and checking matches.

How many tiles would you have to pick to be confident that your estimated probability truly represents the situation? In this activity, you will draw a tile from a bag, record its color and put it back in the bag. The bag contains 24...

A geometry lesson where students read about tilings and tessellations, answer some questions, then explore them using an online interactive. Afterwards, they share and apply their learning in discussion and by examining other tilings.

A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Nursery Tiles, a book of children's poetry.

In this activity, students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by drawing tiles out of a bag.

For this activity created by mathematician Donald Coxeter, students manipulate rhomboids to make different 3-D cubes and other shapes.

Go to Tessellation Town on Tile Island and create a variety of tessellations.

This is the first of two algebra lesson plans from Annenberg Learning. Find plans to teach learners how to factor trinomials. This lesson plan is part of a larger workshop for teachers that offer insights into teaching algebra.

An area problem involving diagonals of a tiled floor.

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.

Students use shapes to explore transformations and tessellations with this interactive white board activity.

This is a "three star" geometry problem where prior math problem skills and proof experience is recommended. Tile constructions may be used to solve this perimeter and area problem.

Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.

An activity to work with fractional parts.

This is a fun way for students to explore and understand how parts make up a whole. Explore fractions, percentages and decimals with this game.

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...

On this one page interactive website expand your logic, Motion Geometry and pattern recognition knowledge while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

This one page website offers two interesting tiling problems. The solution is provided here as well.

What are square numbers? Use tiles at this one page website to discover the pattern of square numbers. See if you can solve the challenge. Once you have your solution you can check the solution given right at the website.

This site from the Drexel University explains the principles of factoring symbolically using algebra tiles.

In this video segment [2:01] from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad finds that by arranging triangle tiles they are able to create a path that will allow them to cross a river of hot lava.