Tessellate

Tessellations are a beautiful melding of math and art and students enjoy creating them. Every time my students have fashioned tessellations we have learned about amazing new resources, new procedures to make it easier….or another new interactive that has popped up on the internet. Tessellate within Shodor, one of these interactive sites, is fun and easy to use. Shodor is a comprehensive visual interactive resource for math educators that I recently found out about on the Teachers First website. There is an easy to understand how to with visual directions. Try it out.

Here are a few other resources that I have found for creating tessellations.

Jo Edkins…create Tessellations

Tessellations.org…comprehensive with many examples

Thinkfinity Illuminations site has an excellent Tessellation creation tool.