From: Sarah (for Teacher2Teacher Service)
Date: Jul 17, 1998 at 02:40:41
Subject: Tessellation Tutorials on the Web

Suzanne Alejandre has written a series of Tessellation Tutorials that have 
been used by students from second grade through high school. See:

Tessellation Tutorials:

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html

For lessons on symmetry related to tessellations, see Where's the Math?: The 
Four Types of Symmetry in the Plane and Repeated Reflections of an "R":

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/wheremath.html

Examples of tessellations created by students who have used these tutorials 
are on the Web at:

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/alejandre/students.tess.html

For examples of the work of very young students in grades 2 and 5, see the 
submissions from Waiau Elementary School in Pearl City, Hawaii:

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/alejandre/waiau.html

 - Sarah, for the T2T Service

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