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tessellating triangles, squares and rectangles
This animation shows how triangles, rectangles and squares tessellate.

3: More Tessellation

The next week we had to make our own tessellating shapes. We got a box of 2D shapes to see if they fitted together. Some shapes fitted together without any gaps, and some did not.

ODid tessellate:
Square
Triangle
Rectangle		 ODid not tessellate:
Circle
Pentagon
Octagon
 

tesselating shape

 

tesselating shape
Then our teacher showed us a trick. If you get a square shape and cut it into two pieces and sellotape it back to back and draw around it, you see that it will tessellate. We made lots of tessellation shapes this way. You can see two of them here.
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