Will it tessellate?
Directions
- Select the shape tool by clicking on it. Create copies of your shape by clicking in the work space.
- When you have enough to work with, click on the Move tool (the arrow) to drag or turn them.
- If you have trouble aligning the shapes, right click to turn on the grid.
- When you are finished making your tessellation, you can hide the points.
For each shape (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon), decide if you can use that shape to make a regular tessellation of the plane. Explain your answer.
For the shapes that do not work what goes wrong? Explain your reasoning.