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Investigating
Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations
- Jill Britton Grades: 5-8 Bursting with introductory activities to symmetry and tessellations, this book also includes reflective images, anti-symmetry, rotational symmetry, plus the art of M. C. Escher. Activities enable students to independently create their own tessellations. (Classroom application requires that each pair of students has a set of three mirrors.) Includes a single set of 4 mirrors, dot paper, and tessellating shapes on a vellum sheet. |
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Polyhedra
Pastimes
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Britton Using this collection of exciting hands-on activities, students learn about the geometry of polyhedra as they make and investigate the properties of exciting 3-D images. Teachers can use the activities sequentially in class or pick and choose activities for point-of-use instruction. Examples of M.C.Escher artwork, full-page blackline masters, and an appendix of related internet links are included. |
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Math
Enrichment 6-12
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Your Own Polyhedra Grades: 6-12 You need to build it to believe it! Sharpen spatial skills by constructing a myriad of configurations from regular polygons, flexagons, regular and pop-up polyhedra to dipyramids, Jennifer's puzzle, dodecahedra, and collapsoids. This books includes illustrated instructions to create various 3-D shapes; it also delves into Euler's formula and how to braid Platonic solids and rotating rings. |
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