Tessellations are fun to do and really are a great brain strainer. Maybe you could make a tessellation of your own! Anyways see you in the next blog post.
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The Horses
The Dinosaurs
The Lizards
The Doves
The People
Thursday, 9 August 2018
Tessellations
In Moana, stage 6 and stage 7's maths strand focus is tessellations. Tessellations are shapes that can fit leaving no gaps and no overlapping. Tessellations are all around us.
There was this man who found out hundreds of ways to make different and his name was Mc Escher. Mc Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, Holland. By distorting different shapes he transformed them into animals. We were given the instructions to choose from a shape up the top. There was a T shape, a C shape an X shape and a plus shape. Once we had chosen our shape we had to find a way to fit them together by rotating them or sliding them or flipping them.When we have made enough progress with our one shape we can move on to two or three shapes.
Tessellations are fun to do and really are a great brain strainer. Maybe you could make a tessellation of your own! Anyways see you in the next blog post.
Attributing images
The Horses
The Dinosaurs
The Lizards
The Doves
The People
Tessellations are fun to do and really are a great brain strainer. Maybe you could make a tessellation of your own! Anyways see you in the next blog post.
Attributing images
The Horses
The Dinosaurs
The Lizards
The Doves
The People
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Hi Obe. It's Daniel P. I like how in this post you showed lots of different examples of tessellation. My favorite one is the blue, yellow and red dinosaurs. I am interested how they all fit so perfectly. What is your favorite one and why? Excellent work on your tessellations post, from Daniel P.
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