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Make and create tessellations

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Creative Geometry

Print the two activity pages for this investigation and use them with your Mathomat V7 geometry template and some blank paper for creative drawing.

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What you will need:

Colouring Materials - Pens or Pencils
Fine-point Pen/s
Mathomat V7 Template
Unlined Paper / Scrap Paper
Sharp Pencil/s

What you will learn in this activity:

Print the two activity pages for this investigation and use them with your Mathomat V7 geometry template and some blank paper.

In the investigation, on page one, you can use the ellipse on your Mathomat to create a drawing of a banner which is also a tessellation. In the second activiyon this page try using the shape cluster in your Mathomat to copy some of the creative tessellation designs you will see there.

On the second page of investigations you can use your Mathomat to make a hexagon, and to convert the 2-D hexagon into a drawing of a 3-D cube.

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