Patterns and designs are everywhere. Natural and man made designs have been around for hundreds of years but we'll never know who put together the first tessellation.
Kids have a spacial interest in patterns; this is how they learn and make sense of thing around them.
Patterns also involve shapes hence I decided it should be introduced to children as its actually a complete study in math. Which study? This one.
"Special pattern in which shapes or pattern cover a surface without any gap is called a tessellation (tes-sel-la-tion)".
So I gave a lot of solid, colored shapes to kids at my center to let them make patterns freely.
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kids playing with shapes
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| A hexagons will tessellate and make interesting patterns |
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| Rocket :) |
And soon there was a tessellation in front of me, I
immediately gathered kids around and made them take notice of the design in front of them.
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| A six years old working with design having hexagon in center |
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| Its surprising kids took hexagon as center figure as it has more sides to connect |
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| This pattern seems to be favorite of all |
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| Flower |
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| Square and diamond |
Triangles, squares and hexagons are the only regular shapes which tessellate by themselves.
Our next project will be making quilts and tiles using tessellation and my kids are more than ready to take part, stay tuned, like and comment below about this write up!
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