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= I Scream For Ice Cream ! = = = = = = = = I Scream For Ice Cream Tessellation Essay =

This tessellation is called I Scream for Ice Cream. This tessellation is called this because the picture is ice cream bowls. This type of tessellation is a translation tessellation. I got the idea of using the ice cream idea because my friend saw a bowl full of ice cream. Once she described the picture to me I totally knew that I was going to do ice cream bowls. I just love to eat ice cream and it seemed fitting to do it. And no matter what else people said that they saw I knew that I was going to do an ice cream tessellation. A tessellation is a never ending picture that has a definite picture, that has no gaps or endings in it. And this is my tessellation. What type of tessellation is this? This tessellation is a translation tessellation. A translation tessellation is a picture that you just slide the picture over to the left and right up and down and the picture looks the same. There are no flips, no twists just the same picture going in the same way. The steps that I used were I made 2 inch lines across a one foot piece of paper. I made the lines up and down and side to side. The end result had made a grid. After that I took a two inch by two inch square and drew a line from the top left corner to the bottom left corner. After that I made another line from the top left corner to the top right corner. After I did this I cut the lines out. I then had three pieces of paper. Then I moved the side piece to the other side and taped it there. Then I took the top piece and moved it to the bottom and I again taped it there. I then saw the shape of a blob. What will this blob make? What picture will it create? This blob had no meaning and I did not see a picture inside of it. I then asked my friends what they saw from the shape and they said I do not know. I then asked my other friend and she said she saw bowls full of ice cream. I then knew that I just had to do ice cream bowls. I traced and traced until the grid was full of the shapes. I then erased the original grid lines that were there until only the outlines of the shapes were there. I then drew in a bowl with ice cream inside of it with hot fudge dripping down it. After the ice cream bowls were completed, I colored in the pictures. There are no differences between the bowls. They all have the same shape, coloring, and design in them. They have no differences that set them apart from the one next to, or to the side of it. This is how the shape of the blob became a bowl full of ice cream. What is the geometry and the symmetry of this tessellation? The shapes found in the tessellation is very important to the overall picture. The type of design needs to be the same when you are doing a tessellation. The ice cream bowls are symmetrical. What type of symmetry do they have? It doesn't have a symmetry to describe them but they are symmetrical. So the ice creams that make up the tessellation are symmetrical. They are symmetrical because they have the same coloring that makes up the pictures. They have the same shape as well. They are symmetrical because one ice cream bowl is the same as the one next to it. There are no differences between them, that is how they are symmetrical. This is my translation tessellation. It is symmetrical and congruent in every way shape or form. What did I learn from this project? I learned that math is in every little thing. Even in art work. You can not do anything without math. And the tessellation is only one example of this. I learned that math can be fun, it can be colorful, and it can create cool and exciting things. I am so happy we did this because it made me more interested in math, and the cool things that we can create. I learned how to make a tessellation. I also learned how to identify a random shape, and how to make a grid and create something cool. I am so happy that we did this project, it was a fun thing to do, and I learned many different things. I got to be creative, and in that creativity I got to create my tessellation “I Scream For Ice Cream.”

Courtney