Tesselations

Does anybody do tesselations and if so what program do you use? I used to use Appleworks and would create a tesselation then use a program to animate them. The only thing that I found that could do something similar is by tech4learning called Twist. Basically, I would create a shape, use the lasso tool, cut a section out of the shape, move it and attach it to another side, then I would edit the color, etc.

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Permalink Reply by Marielle Lange on November 14, 2007 at 1:52pm

Tesselations are cool. They are quite easy to make, with basic drawing tools, in fact. Explanations here Tessellations by Carol Sulik, 5th grade Math Teacher. In particular the page "how we did it"

Lesson plan on tesselations. Very very long page of links on Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations

You also have an online tesselation java applet

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Permalink Reply by David Kapuler on November 14, 2007 at 2:00pm

Great!! Thanks for the links, I really liked the kids work!!!

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Irish on November 14, 2007 at 3:26pm

I do a tessleation unit with my fourth graders, I use Tess available for free at http://www.peda.com/tess/

You can also get the tesslemaia demo at http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/tesselmaniap1.html.

You might want to check out http://www.tessellations.org/ as well