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Nctm: Figure This: Envelopes

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Explore tessellations with real world applications in this activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Figure out what shape you would use to create a legal envelope from a single sheet of paper. Then discover how engineers and designers use tessellations in their fields.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
spatial reasoning, tessellations
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Additional Tags
geometric relationships, geometry, math concept, real world applications, regular tessellations, spatial sense, visualization, figure this, nctm, pattern, polygon, problem solving, rectangle, shape, tessellation
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)