Archaeologists have found that people have used tiles to make mosaics and to decorate homes, temples, and other buildings as long ago as 4000 B.C. The Romans called these tiles tesselae, from which we get the word tessellation. A tessellation is the repeated use of shapes to fill a flat surface without gaps or overlaps.
Students in 4th Grade took a 3in. x 3in. Square, and cut it into a shape they thought would work for a tessellation. When creating these shapes, and then transferring them onto paper, they had to keep in mind the three Geometric Transformations that they learned about in Math. These transformations include translation, reflection, and rotation.
Students in 4th Grade took a 3in. x 3in. Square, and cut it into a shape they thought would work for a tessellation. When creating these shapes, and then transferring them onto paper, they had to keep in mind the three Geometric Transformations that they learned about in Math. These transformations include translation, reflection, and rotation.