Reinforce geometry concepts with this dynamic tool!

GRADES 4 - 8

This powerful manipulative tool helps students understand geometric principles as they experiment with tessellations. Students choose a basic shape, then explore what happens when they apply geometric transformations-slides, turns, flips, and glides-to create a tessellation. They can then watch as their creation animates on the screen, reinforcing transformational geometry concepts. The program also includes step-by-step activities that help students create tessellations of increasing complexity.

MEETS STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
Your students will:

	Predict and describe the results of geometric transforma-tions,including:translations,rotations,reflections,and glide reflections
	Identify,compare,and analyze attributes of shapes
	Solve problems using geometric and spatial reasoning
	Recognize and apply geometric ideas in areas outside the mathematics classroom,such as art

Product Features

	Students create, animate, and print 33 types of tessellations, featuring translations, rotations, reflections, and glide reflections, and slides, turns, flips, and glides
	Drawing tools and 100 colorful stamps make it easy for students to customize their tessellations
	In--depth classroom lessons teach the geometry of tessel-lations - including transformations, angles, and shapes
	Interactive quiz assesses student understanding of geometric transformations
	A built-in tutorial guides students step-by-step through the process of creating a tessellation
	Animated slideshow lets you showcase student work

	Kevin Lee
			The award-winning creator of the classic program TesselMania, Kevin Lee applied his love of tessellations and 20 years of experience teaching mathematics and computer science to create Tessellation Exploration .This innovative program represents a new generation of tessellation program that is easy to use, more dynamic,and includes more tile types and activities for understanding the math behind tessellations.

5 Easy Ways to Order!
	Title		Tessellation Exploration
	(SKU)		TESEXP
	1 computer			$79
	5 computer			$250
	10 computer			$400
	30 computer			$900
	50 computer			$1,050
	Unlimited Site License			$1,200

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	A Mac/Win CD-ROM and comprehensive Teacher's Guide with lesson plans and reproducible student activity sheets.

	Children's Software Revue All Star Software Award
	Earlychildhood NEWS Directors' Choice Award