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Totally Tessellated
Like games? Try your knowledge of tessellations through these games!
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| tessellation | a covering of an infinite plane, without any gaps or overlaps, by a pattern of one or more three-dimensional shapes |
| hexagon | a polygon with six sides |
| triangle | a polygon with three sides |
| square | a polygon with four sides |
| translation | a transformation involving a slide of a rigid figure without rotation |
| right angle | an angle that measures 90 degrees |
| M. C. Escher | a dutch artist that worked a lot with mathematics, optical illusions, and tessellations |
| quilting | way tessellations are used today |
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