Tessellations
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http://www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/grades_games_tess.html
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Tessellation
In Latin, tessella was a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass used to make mosaics. The word "tessella" means "small square" (from "tessera", square, which in its turn is from the Greek word for "four"). It corresponds with the everyday term tiling which refers to applications of tessellation, often made of glazed clay.
What is a tessellation?
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/tesspag1.html
Play on line
Designing A square Tessellation
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/tess.htm
Escher style
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/sqtile.htm
Tessselate
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Tessellate/
Math Cats Tessellation
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html
My Favorite tessellation maker
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?id=202
Interactice Tessleation on line
Creating Tessellations Using "Paintbrush" or "Paint"
http://www.wsd1.org/lgc98/teach/Paint/makefish.htm
Free downloadable Software to create tesselations of ypour own at home.
Kali |
Children of all ages create beautiful art based on the 17 tiling patterns. |
Windows 95/XP, Mac Classic |
info | download |
For all things Tess
http://www.tessellations.org/index.htm
Flash-Lines of symetry
I LOVE TESSELATIONS
Do you want your own copy of Tesselmania? You can download it here.You can't save it because it is a demo/ But you can press the printscreen button and paste in MS Word and keep your design that way>
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