Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Patterns and Symmetry
Teachers, here's a great resource for worksheets and presentations about symmetry. Includes PowerPoint and smartboard presentations.
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PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Mirror, Mirror [Pdf]
The goal of this PBS lesson is for students to apply spatial reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills to assess which regular polygons will tessellate. A detailed lesson plan that includes related worksheets, lesson...
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry instructional activity 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...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
Other
Gobierno De Navarra: Teselaciones Del Plano Por m.c. Escher
This site contains 16 interactive activities about tessellation.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifying tessellations and figures that will tessellate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grades 8 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Tessellate figures.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Tessellations Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about tessellations and how to determine whether or not a figure will tessellate.
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: What Is a Tessellation?
The Math Forum defines and illustrates geometric tessellation.
Other
Center for Technology and Teacher Education:exploring and Creating Tessellations
This site is a Geometer's Sketch Pad lesson plan where students explore tessellations through reflections, rotations, and translations.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Wilhelm Magnus
This site, provided by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, gives a biography of Wilhelm Magnus. Many interesting links are provided as well.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Tessellation Creator
Interactive tool creates patterns to cover the screen using regular polygons.
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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Foundations of Multiplication and Division
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in the foundations of multiplication and division.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: 2 D Shapes
Students can use this interactive site to practice various geometric concepts such as rotations, reflections, translations, tesselations and geometric patterns.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Riksjas, Toek Toek: 2 D Space: Symmetry
Students will play interactive games and explore symmetry.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Wizards: 2 D and 3 D Shapes
Students will create a model of a three-dimensional shape and create tessellations on a computer using two-dimensional shapes.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Space Filling Polyhedron
This MathWorld site shows pictures of polyhedra which can fill space. A discussion of these figures follows.
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Tessellation Artist
Students will have fun making tessellations in this activity, which they can then print out.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Building Stars
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to color in a tessellation that is different from the usual. Read the short introduction to find out more about this tessellation that doesn't repeat.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Roll These Dice
Sharpen your problem solving, sequencing, and spatial reasoning skills playing this interactive game, Roll The Dice. See how many different paths you can take to end up with the same result.