Tessellations

In one of last week's blog posts I mentioned that we had been studying tessellations.

What is a tessellation? Easy! It is a series of repeated images designed in such a way so as not to overlap each other or allow any spaces. The images can be regular or semi-regular polygons or simple curves, animals or any other thing that comes into your head and fits together appropriately.

This is the perfect web to learn all about tessellations:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/tessellation.html

We first had a look through Google images to get an idea of what we were dealing with.

Then we printed off one for M. to colour from here:

http://www.squidoo.com/geometric-coloringpages

Tessellation fish

We studied the next day using the first website I have mentioned and then had good fun making our own tessellations on-line (see bottom of web page for the link - tessellation artist).

Lastly, we printed off some dotted paper from this web: http://www.mathcats.com/crafts.html  and created our own. Both tessellations have been designed using regular polygons so therefore they are regular tessellations.

M. chose warm colours.

I chose pinks and purples, of course!