Symmetry and Tessellation for Middle School Mathematics
A middle school mathematics teacher, Bud Maher, designed a lesson to help his students in an eighth-grade math class understand the concepts of symmetry and tessellation. He created the following three-level guide (Herber, 1978; Richardson & Morgan, 2003) based on content at the Math Forum website project of Drexel University. In designing the guide, he used examples of tessellations from nature, art, and architecture, so his students could better understand geometry.