Understanding tessellations - Transformations
Understanding tessellations
The word tessellations may not be a familiar word to all of us, while tessellations are common in our everyday life. What exactly does it mean? Tessellations basically mean covering a surface without overlaps or gaps using a pattern of flat shapes. Using rectangular tiles to cover the kitchen floor is a good real life example of tessellations. We will learn more basic concepts of tessellations in this lesson.
Basic concepts:
- Introduction to transformations
Lessons
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a)
How to find the sum of interior angles of a polygon?
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b)
Tessellation
- What is tessellation?
- How to make a tessellation?
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