Beth Ronilo
Glynn Academy
The following
websites will provide understanding of transformations of geometric figures
and tessellations through hands-on exploration.
This site
allows you to view all transformations including rotations, translations,
and reflections.You will be able
to see the actual transformation, plus answer questions that will enhance
your understanding.
This site
allows you to create tessellations from triangles, hexagons, and rectangles.
A tribute
to the tessellation and to M.C. Escher, this site provides pictures of
his art and biographical information.It
tends to focus more on the art rather than the math.
This site
allows students to see the actual reflections of points, segments, triangles,
and quadrilateral.(you may only
visit once a day unless you join)
When you
get to this site, scroll down until you see a pull down menu for mathematics.Go
to Geometry: Symmetry and Transformations.
This site
provides more pictures of tessellations and descriptions of the different
types.It gives you starting place
for creating your own.