Favorite quote: “Oh my gosh! I can feel my brain working”.
We had a great time at the Thinkery’s Community Spotlight: Women in STEAM. Thanks to Halle Herzog, Kyla Kalugden and Cassandra Gonzalez. We featured the irregular pentagon tilings and artistic butterfly stylings of Marjorie Rice.
Marjorie Rice found 4 of the remaining 6 types that were still unidentified in 1975. For this activity we looked at a number of shapes that Tessellate or cover a floor without gaps, and two examples of Marjorie’s irregular tessellating Pentagons: Number 9 – see beautiful puzzle, and Number 13 – heart shaped blanks to tessellate. Here’s a link to Marjorie’s Website
We joined reflected images like Marjorie did to make butterflies. See some of our project notes here.
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- Halle making her own design
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- No 9 Puzzle was a hit!
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- No 13 does Tessellate–He figured out a trick to keep going
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- Favorite numbers 9 and 2
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- One is not enough : )
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- Making other designs.
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- We think this is a crab.
For this activity we looked at Tessellations, the three tessellating regular polygons, irregular polygons, regular hexagons and two examples of Marjorie’s irregular tessellating Pentagons. Number 9 – see beautiful puzzle, and Number 13 – blank to tessellate and decorate (no sharp corners not that one).
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