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Cool tessellations : creative activities that make math & science fun for kids! / Anders Hanson and Elissa Mann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cool art with math & sciencePublication details: Minneapolis, MN : ABDO Publishing Company, 2014, c2014.Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781617838262 (lib. bdg.) :
Other title:
  • Creative activities that make math and science fun for kids!
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 516/.132 23
LOC classification:
  • QA166.8 .H36 2014
Contents:
Cool tessellations: the tiling of space -- Shape up! get to know your polygons! -- Project 1: making a tessellation -- Three of a kind: regular tessellations -- The great eight: semi-regular tessellations -- Anything goes! non-regular tessellations -- Project 2: tessellating with scissors -- M.C. Escher: the master of tessellations -- Mirror image: the beauty of symmetry -- Project 3: tessellating with tracing paper -- Archimedean solids: another dimension -- Project 4: tessellating in 3-D -- Math terms -- Glossary -- Web sites -- Index.
Summary: Introduces readers to the sciences with a twist, cool tessellation activities that offer practical applications.
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Includes glossary.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

Cool tessellations: the tiling of space -- Shape up! get to know your polygons! -- Project 1: making a tessellation -- Three of a kind: regular tessellations -- The great eight: semi-regular tessellations -- Anything goes! non-regular tessellations -- Project 2: tessellating with scissors -- M.C. Escher: the master of tessellations -- Mirror image: the beauty of symmetry -- Project 3: tessellating with tracing paper -- Archimedean solids: another dimension -- Project 4: tessellating in 3-D -- Math terms -- Glossary -- Web sites -- Index.

Introduces readers to the sciences with a twist, cool tessellation activities that offer practical applications.

4.0.

8-12.

3.0-6.0.

550 Lexile.

N Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Books.

Accelerated Reader MG 3.7 0.5 162084