Play mats: How to have children doing tessellations with squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons

The tessellation set

Testimonial:

'.... apart from the obvious use of tessellations in the formulation of pattern, order and other mathematics concepts such as flip, side, turn, size and the use and naming of shapes, they are also a valuable tool in collaborative group work. They encourage sharing, the use of negotiation skills and encourage the use of a range of higher order thinking skills and strategies. .... oh ... and they are fun to play with.'

Peter Mansfield,

Frankston Primary School,

Frankston, Victoria

Kids playing with tessellation sets

With the four basic shapes of square, rectangle, triangle and hexagon, you can build both regular tessellations and semi-regular tessellations.

With the selection of pieces children can begin with simple tessellations and go onto more and more advanced tessellated images.

There should be sufficient pieces
for children to share, play and learn.

See the tessellations video

Number of tessellation pieces:

Triangles: 18 of each color

Rectangles: 12 of each color

Squares : 4 of each color

Hexagons: 2 of each color

Making the set a total of 216 pieces

Which is capable of covering approximately 1.8 square meters or 2.16 square yards

The set of 216 pieces in a wooden box are $245.

There are quantity discounts available.

Freight is extra; as is GST if you are an Australian purchaser.

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Tessellation Shapes:

Colours:

Tessellation examples:

Examples of tessellation sets

Kids playing with the tessellation set

Tessellation game

Joining shapes together to make up tessellations

Tessellation

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