What are tessellations?

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What are tessellations? A repeating pattern of shapes that goes on forever without any gaps or overlaps. You can think of tiling a floor. Squares, triangles and hexagons are all shapes that tessellate. Mathematician Marjorie Rice discovered some very interesting polygons that tile. It is fun to color and move around all kinds of geometric shapes! See how these squares

Art. Math. Tessellations.

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Finding the “M” in STEAM! Parents at Bird Rock Elementary in La Jolla, California partnered with MathHappens to include hands-on math and art activities as part of their STEAM Fest 2019. S.T.E.A.M. …Bird Rock Elementary has ALL the lettters! Tessellating polygons are fun to arrange in freehand tiling patterns or puzzling into wooden frames. You can find art in math…

Enthusiasm for Math at the Austin Central Library Kids Block Party!

Lauren SiegelEvents, Intern Experience, Libraries, Math is fun!1 Comment

If you ever wondered if families, adults, kids, teens would be interested in some math on a Saturday, this should answer your question.  We brought Tessellations, and in particular some designed with Marjorie Rice’s discoveries and we also featured Lewis Carroll’s puzzles, tangrams and cipher codes.  MH team:  Kyla Kalugdan, Josephine Sheng and Lauren Siegel, and special thanks to our

MathHappens @ the Thinkery with Marjorie Rice Tessellating Pentagons

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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