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Build a "floor tile" by dragging the corners of a quadrilateral. Learn about tessellation of quadrilateral figures when the shape you built is tiled over an area.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, coordinate plane, coordinate system, length, pattern, planes, quadrilaterals, rectangles, reflections, rhombus, rotation, slides, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation

Create a tessellation by deforming a triangle, rectangle or hexagon to form a polygon that tiles the plane. Corners of the polygons may be dragged, and corresponding edges of the polygons may be dragged. Parameters: Colors, starting polygon.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, flips, geometry, glides, hexagon, length, pattern, planes, polygon, reflections, rotation, slides, squares, symmetry, tessellations

Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, rotations about any point, and translations in any direction. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: angles, cartesian coordinate, coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, image, linear equations, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose