Regular Polygons

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• Regular Polygons

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http//mathworld.wolfram.com/HomePlate.html
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb
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Decagon?
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Decagon?
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GEODESIC DOMES(R. Buckminster Fuller- Bucky
Balls)
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GEOMETRY

• The Greedy Triangle
• Paper Strips
• MOBIUS STRIP
• LOOPS
• WALK THROUGH PAPER
• Powerpoint
• Tessellations
• WITH MANIPULATIVES
• TRANSLATIONS (SLIDES)
• REFLECTIONS (FLIPS)
• ROTATIONS (TURNS)
• TESSELMANIA http//www.worldofescher.com/store
  /mania.html
• Escher
• OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
• DIVISION OF PLANES

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Activities

• Naming shapes
• Sorting geometry shapes
• What do I have...
• Geopardy http//images.google.ca/imgres?imgurlh
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• OR
• http//homepages.ius.edu/JUDCAMPB/lessons/pplesson
  _files/frame.htm
• Tangrams
• Cubes
• Geopanes
• Lines of symmetry (need to create acti)
• Pool table

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• Using Smartboard for tesselations- cloning,
  rotating and fitting the puzzle pieces together!
  Must learn to slide parts of the shape.

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Squares
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Rhombi
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Pentagons
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Hexagons
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Heptagons
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Octagons
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Nonagons
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Decagons
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Regular Tesselations

• Triangles
• Quadrilaterals
• Hexagons

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Download tesselmania

• http//www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/tesselmaniap1.ht
  ml
• tesselmania
• Download World of Escher
• once you have downloaded Tesselmania,
• right-click on the Tesselmania icon.  
• click on Properties, and then click on the
  "compatibility" tab.  
• under the "display settings" heading, check off
  the box next to "run in 256 colours".   then
  click "apply" and then click "ok".

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To Save Tesselmania

• Maximize your screen
• Press Alt and Print Screen at the same time
• Go into either Microsoft word or Photoshop and
  create a new document
• Hit the Ctrl and V buttons or edit and paste
• Note in photoshop you can crop the image so that
  you can get rid of the program border or in Word
  under Picture format/crop