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.
The CAD files for the butterfly puzzle are available here. We hand decorate each of our puzzles so they are all different. Permanent markers, paint or even colored pencils can work.
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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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