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Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I

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Students complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio presentation.

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tessellations

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Grade
6th - 8th
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Math
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