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Tessellation video review

From: Nancy Walkup (walkup)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 08:11:07 PST

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    I, too, must say that I think Jim McNeill's tessellation video is superb. As Pam said, it is not a comprehensive history of tessellations but step-by-step instruction for three increasingly complex kinds of tessellations: slide, rotation, and reflection. We have used it for many teacher workshops and with students with great success. It is extremely helpful in teaching because it can be stopped and reviewed as students work. Tessellations are very difficult to explain without images to follow.

    All the tessellations in the video are McNeill's original designs and we have yet to find any better. There are plenty of other resources to use on tessellations; both Crystal Productions and Dale Seymour carry many of them, including a CD-ROM, Tessellmania Deluxe.

    McNeill also has a web site that features many of his tessellation designs. You might want to check it out:
    http://hometown.aol.com/JMcne76382/home.html and http://www.sova.unt.edu/ntieva/news/vol_9/issue3/inter.htm (an online interview with kids).

    Nancy 

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