TESSELLATIONS: LESSONS FOR EVERY AGE

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Title:	TESSELLATIONS: LESSONS FOR EVERY AGE
Author:	Cerrone, Kathryn L
Description:	Tessellations are a mathematical concept which many elementary teachers use for interdisciplinary lessons between math and art. Since the tilings are used by many artists and masons many of the lessons in circulation tend to focus primarily on the artistic part, while overlooking some of the deeper mathematical concepts such as symmetry and spatial sense. The inquiry-based lessons included in this paper utilize the subject of tessellations to lead students in developing a relationship between geometry, spatial sense, symmetry, and abstract algebra for older students. Lesson topics include fundamental principles of tessellations using regular polygons as well as those that can be made from irregular shapes, symmetry of polygons and tessellations, angle measurements of polygons, polyhedra, three-dimensional tessellations, and the wallpaper symmetry groups to which the regular tessellations belong. Background information is given prior to the lessons, so that teachers have adequate resources for teaching the concepts. The concluding chapter details results of testing at various age levels.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1151427935 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/3874
Date:	2006

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