Monday 16 April 2012

Tessellations


Hello friends today we will discuss about tessellation which you need to study in grade VII. Generally in mathematics you didn't heard this term but it has a relation with mathematics. A tessellation is a pattern made by repeating shapes. Making Tessellations require a creativity of an art with capability of solving puzzles. In this world there are many natural tessellations also present.
In modern world very few people are aware of the term Tessellations. The connection between math and art is very strong and frequent but very few people are aware of that. Tessellation also covers a regular space without overlapping and without leaving any space. For example a chessboard is a Tessellation, made of squares with no gap in between and without overlapping. The pattern of the brick on a wall is a Tessellation made by rectangle.
Whenever we deal in mathematics we aware of terms like algebra, calculus, trigonometry ...etc. if we talk about the term tessellation we are not aware of this term. But as we know that there is a very strong relation between art and mathematics and that is only because of the term like tessellation, so we can say that Tessellations has a relationship with mathematics. The tessellation definition is that shape of repeated things. (know more about cbse latest sample papers, here) The repeated things can be anything, if we take an example of a chessboard then it is a pattern made by squares as squares are repeated regularly in the chessboard but the thing we need to notice is that there is no gap between the square, so if we are drawing any tessellation then the thing we need notice that there is no overlapping between the figure and there is no gap between the figure. In the next session we will discuss about Reflections/translations on a coordinate plane

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