Did you ever heard about tessellations? Do you know how to tile a Kitchen? Had you heard about M.C.Escher? Today we'll start the tessellations' project. Are you ready?
Activity
Take a paper and try to answer the folllowing questions. You may need the resources listed below.
What does to tessellate mean? Explain it using your own words.
Are you able to list all the regular polygons?
Try to think about a method to discover if a regular polygon tessellates or not and explain it using your own words. Hint: use the number of sides and the interior angle measurements.
Build and fill in a table with the following columns: regular polygon; number of sides; interior angle between sides; does it tessellate?
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