The 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students have been learning how to do tessellations in math. Tessellations are something that you can repeat on and on with out any gaps or space in between them. This is kind of like a patterning that you use with wallpaper, cells that are in the body, and other kinds of things like shapes. There are three different kinds of tessellation. The first one is regular tessellation, which is made up of congruent polygons. The second one is semi-regular tessellations, which are made up of two or more polygons. The last one is non-regular tessellations; this is when you use translations, reflection, and rotation. Lastly, tessellations are important because if things weren’t able to tessellate, they wouldn’t look as nice as they do. – Jalia M.
