Tutorials
and templates for making your own tessellations (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html)
-
This lesson plan includes material relating tessellations to mathematics.
Totally
Tessellated (http://library.advanced.org/16661/)
-
comprehensive introduction to tessellations, including history,
mathematics, how to make tessellations, and information about
the most famous tessellator, M.C. Escher.
Beyond
the Block: Tessellating Patterns
(http://www.quiltgallery.com/technique2.htm) - for patchwork
quilters.
Highland
Middle School Tessellations
(http://www.mcs.net/~highland/tess/tess.html)
Hop's
Escher Tiles
(http://www.tabletoptelephone.com/~hopspage/HopsTiles.html)
- math influenced art.
How
to Make a Tesselation
(http://members.tripod.com/~kateDC/tess.htm)
HyperCard
& Tessellations
(http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/tess.html)
The
Magic of Tessellation
(http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1553/)
Montello
JHS Tessellations Page
(http://www.montello.k12.wi.us/tessellate.htm)
Ms.
Woodburn's Student Tessellations
(http://www.ttl.dsu.edu/woodburg/student.htm)
Student
Tessellations
(http://forum.swarthmore.edu/alejandre/students.tess.html)
Tantalizing
Tessellations
(http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.96/archamb1.html)
- lesson plans for teachers.
Tessellation
Resources (http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/tilings/)
Tessellation
Tutorials
(http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html)
-
Tutorials and templates for making your own tessellations.
Tessellations
Project
(http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/
Technology/School_WWW_Pages/Tessellations/
TessellationHomePage.html) - a fifth grade math class
project.
Web
Directory: Tessellation Links
(http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/links.html)
What
Is a Tessellation?
(http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html)
Tessellations
at Coolmath.com (http://www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm
and at http://www.Coolmath4kids.com) -
This page tells all about tessellations with
lots of great examples. For kids, big kids, really big kids
and teachers! (highly recommended)
Suzanne's
Tessellations
(http://www.mirrors.org.sg/mathforum/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html)
- Tutorials and templates for making tessellations using
ClarisWorks, the Geometer's Sketchpad, HyperCard, HyperStudio,
and straightedge and compass, including step-by-step instructions
for classroom activities.
Quasitiler
(http://freeabel.geom.umn.edu/apps/quasitiler/)
- QuasiTiler draws Penrose tilings and their generalizations.
This site explains the interesting geometry involved in the
processes.
