Escher-Esque Tessellations

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Middle and high schoolers participate in a seven-part lesson creating Escher-Esque tessellations. They demonstrate their knowledge of geometric transformations after viewing a PowerPoint presentation, conducting Internet research, and applying geometric software. Students write an essay describing their tessellation and why it is an example of geometric art.

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reflections, translations, rotations, congruence, coordinate plane, escher, tessellations, transformations