n the g with LG

This shows one of us laying out an arrangement of shapes.Click on  the labels below to see patterns made by laying out arrangements of identical shapes on the carpet.

8 sided shapes:

12 sided shapes:

We read the competition rules again and decided to enter. First of all, we had to understand what tessellation meant. Our teacher gave us some cards that were all different shapes like hexagons, octagons, triangles and pentagons. They had patterns on them like triangles, squares and quadrilaterals. We lay them on the carpet; first of all we made pictures with them but we did not lay the sides together.

Our teacher asked us if we could see patterns on the cards if we pushed them together. When we did this, they looked different. After we tessellated all of them together, we squinted our eyes and saw new shapes.

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