![]() Pedagoguery Software - Tess, software for tessellation design (see Software menu) Spinners > up to 16 sectors, with adjustable sizes.Shapes > pattern blocks, attribute blocks, and color tiles.Tessellations > tiling patterns involving triangles, quadrilaterals, and hexagons.Number Grids > hundreds boards and the like.Number Lines > including positive and negative coordinates.Graph Paper > coordinate graphs, polar coordinates, logarithmic graph paper.Nets > two-dimensional outlines of three-dimensional shapes, including regular polyhedra, prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones.Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image This applet allows you to create the following: Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from 18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Software coming out in December 2013 / January 2014, from the same guy who wrote TesselMania many years ago. Teacher Lea Thompson for suggesting BarCodesInc.) Lesson plan into an easy tessellation lesson for a kids' geometry or art class. The steps is a little vague and seems to miss a point- but if you know what you're doing, you can rewrite this Kind of boxy abstract tessellation, but I'm afraid you'll have to read between the lines a bit. They have a text-only simple lesson plan for making the simplest Has a nice tessellation learners' resource guide. Look for a link back to the English version, or grab a thick dictionary. If the text on your screen uses ABCs but every word looks like your cat's napping on your keyboard, you're on the Welsh pages. Warning: if you're not careful with your clicking, you may drop into the Welsh version of these same pages. NGfL CYMRU GCaD is the name of the Welsh/English website with this tessellation tutorial, with downloadable free lessons and teaching materials, for teachers and students. Check out this page by a teacher and class in Hawaii, for example. has a good stockpile of tutorials and school teachers' tessellation resources. gives free worksheets for students, with graphic art examples of Rotation, Translation, and Reflection (Turn, Slide, and Flip) symmetry types. (Inspired 'My Gallery 6' pictures '3D' and 'more 3D') Geometric Arts, Ghee Beom Kim - Only a few tessellations but many other wonderful graphics. Peter van Rooij - Interesting tessellations and approach from a different angle. His designs have."appeared" in many prominent places, without proper citation or payment. (Note: Math teachers and parents in search of stocking-stuffers, this site also includes paper polyhedra models, et cetera) Interesting fellow to talk to about what is copyrightable art and design. Some nice tessellations, some animated too! Worth a visit. Ozzigami - Australian Bruce Bilney's slightly tongue-in-cheek site. Jos Leys - Jos is an Ultra Fractal expert but there are wonderful tessellations and other delights here too! ![]() Check out their website- it's loaded with fun facts and Escher-style art. Escher course since its inception in 2000. ![]() They have been teaching the Math and the Art of M.C. Jo Edkins - Bright tessellation site with interactive on-screen programs for making your own simple designs and mosaics.įree printable worksheets for primary school math, including tessellation worksheets here and here.ĮscherMath was made by Anneke Bart and Bryan Clair, professors in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint Louis University. NEW: Fun, colorful tessellation animations - from "Scratch", a project of M.I.T., the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, a top engineering college in the USA. Jim McNeill's Tessellations - Fun colorful tessellations from Jim McNeill of Arizona. Intriguing Tessellations - Marjorie Rice, discoverer of several previously unknown tessellating pentagons. Hop has another site which has paintings based on tessellations.Īlso included are animating patterns depicting the 17 symmetry groups and unusual Escher stuff, etc Patrick Snel's database of tessellation patterns and the living tessellation artists who created themĭavid Bard - Refreshing site with tessellations used mainly pictorially. The list is maintained by Andrew Crompton. Escher's main official siteĪ definitive list of 50+ Escher-like tessellation artists alive & creating nowadays. Professor Jill Britton is a well-know, well-respected mathematics teacher, author, and speaker.Ĭordon Art - M.C. It's got one of the most complete guides to whatever tessellation software and websites exist. Jill Britton's Homepage is like Santa's sack for anyone who loves math+art. Heard of a good one? We would like to hear from you about other tessellation sites. How to Make an Asian Chop (stone stamp).
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