Tessellation

Kia ora bloggers. In Te Ngahere we have been making tessellations, a tessellation is when you use one four sided shape it could be a regular or irregular shape, then you duplicate the shape and translate it so that it joins up without any gaps or without any part of the shape overlapping. Did you know that tessellations are both maths and art? A tessellation is math because you use translation, rotation, reflection and symmetry. A tessellation is art because it makes a picture and you can make tessellations that make shapes look like animals. What I found challenging about this was getting the shapes to fit perfectly without any gaps or without overlapping.