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Tesselation

 

5.4

 Tesselation
 
What is tesselation?
 
A tessellation is a pattern of recurring shapes that fills a plane without leaving empty spaces or overlapping.
 
The diagram below shows some examples of tessellation.
 
 
 
Example 6
 
Determine whether each of the following patterns is a tessellation.
 
 
Solution:
 
  • A tessellation consisting of pentagons only.
  • Not a tessellation because it has a shape which does not recur, which is a square.
  • A tessellation consisting of combination of equilateral triangles and squares.
  • A tessellation consisting of the recurring patterns without overlapping.
 
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Chapter : Congruence, Enlargement and Combined Transformation
Topic : Tessellation
Form 5 Mathematics
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