Tessellation Tutorials
Tutorials and templates for making your own tessellations

Suzanne Alejandre

About This Project || Teacher Comments  ||  Student Samples  || Suzanne's Math Lessons

What Is a Tessellation?

What Is a Tiling?

Where's the Math?

Historical and Geographical Connections

Regular Tessellations: Teacher Lesson Plan || Student Page

Tutorials:

Claris Works: Color Tessellations

• Claris Works Tessellation Tips
• Claris Works & Tessellations

Geometer's Sketchpad: Color Tessellations

• The Geometer's Sketchpad and Tessellations by Cathi Sanders
• Tessellations from Hawaii - using the Geometer's Sketchpad method

HyperCard: Black & White Tessellations

• HyperCard Tessellation Tips
• HyperCard & Tessellations
• HyperCard & Tessellations with Rotations
• HyperCard & Tessellations with Glide Reflections

HyperStudio: Color Tessellations

• HyperStudio Tessellation Tips
• HyperStudio & Tessellations
• HyperStudio & Tessellations with Rotations
• HyperStudio & Tessellations with Glide Reflections
• HyperStudio & Tessellations with Rotations by Maureen Grant

PC Paintbrush or Paint: Color Tessellations

• A Tessellation Activity

  for Grade 6 Mathematics Using Paintbrush or Paint
  by Brian Metcalfe, Editor - Bits and Bytes

• Teaching, Technology and Tessellations - An article by Brian Metcalfe

LogoWriter: Programmed Tessellations

• LogoWriter Introduction
• LogoWriter Polygons
• LogoWriter Tessellations
• More LogoWriter Tessellations

Templates and Tessellations

Tessellating with only a Straightedge and Compass

Activity Pattern Blocks

• Warmup activity using Activity Pattern Blocks
• Activity Pattern Block student tessellation samples

Other Tessellation Links and Related Sites

Software and JAVA Applets

Activities Index - Interactivate Project
    Links to several activities involving tessellations.

Kali - Jeff Weeks
    Kali lets you draw symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 tiling groups.

Tess - Pedagoguery Software Inc.
    With Tess, you can quickly create attractive symmetric planar illustrations.

TesselMania and Tessellation Exploration - Kevin Lee
    The unique art of tessellations can now be created by you.

Tessellating Fractal Image Project - Kenneth Cole

Teacher Comments

Student Tessellations