Tessellations Activity Books
Written by Robert Fathauer, these feature black-line designs that may be copied by teachers.
Geometric Shapes Activity Book
This book contains two pages of background material about geometric shapes, an activities example page, plus two dozen 8.5" x 11" pages of different geometric shapes. Each shape is incorporated in a larger drawing showing an example of the shape in the real world or its use in a geometric design. There are six activities that may be performed for each page:
1. Coloring the large geometric shape and drawing incorporating it.
2. Drawing the geometric shape, first by using the dots provided in the lower right corner for guidance, and then freehand.
3. Writing out the name of the shape, and learning to pronounce and spell it.
4. Coloring the tessellation example.
5. Marking the rotational and mirror symmetries of the shape on the drawing in the upper right corner.
6. Measuring the dimensions of the shape in the upper right drawing and using them to calculate the perimeter or area.
Item no. 195. Suggested retail price: $12.95.
Lifelike Tessellations Activity Book
This book contains two pages of background material about tessellations, an activities example page, plus two dozen 8.5" x 11" pages of original Escher-like designs. There are five activities that may be performed for each page:
1. Identifying the different types of tiles in the design;
2. Identifying the unit cell for the design (the group of tiles that can be repeated to cover the plane);
3. Marking the different types of symmetry the design possesses;
4. Drawing the geometric grid on which the design is based;
5. Coloring the design.
Item no. 191. Suggested retail price: $12.95.
Regular Polygon Tessellations Activity Book
This book contains two pages of background material about tessellations, an activities example page, plus two dozen 8.5" x 11" pages of tessellations in which the individual tiles are regular polygons. There are five activities that may be performed for each page:
1. Identifying the different types of tiles in the design;
2. Identifying the unit cell for the design (the group of tiles that can be repeated to cover the plane);
3. Marking the different types of symmetry the design possesses;
4. Identifying the distinct types of vertices in the design;
5. Coloring the design.
Item no. 192. Suggested retail price: $12.95.
Polyhedra Activity Book
This book contains two pages of background material about polyhedra, an activities example page, plus two dozen 8.5" x 11" pages of different polyhedra, including all eighteen Platonic and Archimedean Solids. There are six activities that may be performed for each page:
1. Identifying the number and different types of polygons in the polyhedron;
2. Counting the number of vertices, faces, and edges in the polyhedron;
3. Writing out the name of the polyhedron and learning to pronounce it;
4. Marking the different types of symmetry the polyhedron possesses;
5. Drawing the polyhedron by connecting dots;
6. Coloring the polyhdedron.
Item no. 194. Suggested retail price: $12.95.
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