Introduction to Tessellations |  | Authors: Dale Seymour, Jill Britton
Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 264
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0866514619
Dewey Decimal Number: 516.132
EAN: 9780866514613
ASIN: 0866514619
Publication Date: June 1986
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This clear introduction to tessellations and other intriguing geometric designs help students explore polygons, regular polygons and combinations of regular polygons, Escher-type tessellations, Islamic art designs, and tessellating letters. Step-by-step directions for creating tessellations support discussions of the symmetries and transformations involved. The companion book of overhead masters contains more than 270 patterns students can use to create and analyze polygonal, regular, demi-regular, and demi-regular tessellations; star polygons, tessellating curves; and polyominoes. Reproducible. Grades 6-12
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Simply superb! December 11, 2008
Grandma (NH, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dale Seymour's Introduction to Tessellations is the clearest and most thorough explanation of tessellations I have come across. Although the book contains material that is suitable for a college level course, those following the Singapore Mathematics curriculum will find much of it perfectly suitable for use as supplementary material for grades 5 and up. Graph and dot paper suitable for student use is included in the book and separate teaching masters Tessellation Teaching Masters: 07900 are available.
Highly recommended.
Excellent introduction to the principles of plane tessellation and a good resource for activities July 4, 2008
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A plane tessellation is where a small number of patterns (sometimes only one) are repeated to completely cover a planar surface. To be a true tessellation, the covering can be extended to infinity in all directions. In many ways, tessellations are a merger of art and mathematics, because it is fairly easy to prove which geometric shapes can be used to tessellate the plane. There are also many practical uses in design, as they appear as the floors, walls and ceilings of many structures.
The authors provide many colorful examples of tessellations as well as give instructions on how to create them. Basic geometry and knowledge of angles is all the mathematics you will need to understand them. The range of the types of tessellations surprised me, as a mathematician I am familiar with the concepts of tiling the plane, but the wide variety of shapes, even the face of a witch, a fish and the face of a dog are used to create tessellations.
If you have any interest at all in tessellations, particularly if you are an artist, then this is a book you must read. It is also a great resource for elementary and middle schoolteachers.
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