National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: What Is a Tessellation?
The Math Forum defines and illustrates geometric tessellation.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Tessellation Tutorials
This site provides a wealth of tutorials regarding tessellation. Content ranges from basic definitions of what tessellation is, to the math behind it, to various learning activities.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Geometry in Tessellations
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan explores tessellations and their geometric properties. Plenty of interactive support is available for students. Lots of resources for teachers to use.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Tessellations
Get independent practice working with tessellations. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Visual Patterns in Tessellations
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Triangle Tessellation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore tessellations and whether a polygon can tessellate. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tessellations and Tile Patterns
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.
Other
Tessellation World of Makoto Nakamura
There's more to do here than just look at Escher-like tessellations. You can watch animated tessellations and put together puzzles.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Regular Tessellations
This site contains a lesson plan on tessellations. There is a link to the NCTM standards that fit this lesson and a link to an applet that is useful to both teacher and student.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg, a Ced Regular Tessellations of the Plane
This task examines the ways in which a plane can be covered by regular polygons in a regular tessellation arrangement. The problem uses the formula for the measure of the interior angles of a regular polygon and the goal of the task is...
Other
Backtracking: An Interactive Tessellation Game
Click on the squares to move the tiles and create the correct pattern. A fun way to explore the concept of tessellations.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Tessellations and Transformations
Investigate tessellations using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students will explore transformations, namely line symmetry, rotation symmetry, and translation occurring within a tessellated pattern. Be sure to follow the...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Tessellation Artist
Students will have fun making tessellations in this activity, which they can then print out.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
Math Cats
Math Cats: Visit Tessellation Town on Tile Island!
Go to Tessellation Town on Tile Island and create a variety of tessellations.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Tessellating Triangles
The challenge at this one page website, involves tessellation and triangle. Should you accept this challenge, you will find helpful teacher notes and the solution available right at the website.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Hexagon Tessellation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students determine whether a hexagon can tessellate or not. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Tessellations: Tessellating Squares
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students determine if squares can tessellate. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
Other
Porcelai Nia: Tessela
Tessellated geometric patterns in art are discussed and illustrated in this resource.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Tessellation Creator
Interactive tool creates patterns to cover the screen using regular polygons.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Shape Inlay Game
Drag and drop shapes into a puzzle to explore tessellations.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Floor Tiles
Build a "floor tile" by dragging the corners of a quadrilateral. Learn about tessellation of quadrilateral figures when the shape you built is tiled over an area.
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