Monday, August 8, 2016

Tessellation



Tessellation
A pattern made of identical shapes:
• the shapes must fit together without any gaps
• the shapes should not overlap

Example: This tessellation is made with squares and octagons.

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Regular polygon
A polygon is a flat shape.  It sides are straight lines
Irregular polygon
There is two main type of polygon. they are Regular polygon and Irregular polygon
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Vocabulary / glossary
Shapes = polygon
vertice =when two sides meet    
angel =  is on a corner of a polygon

Tessellation photo

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