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A Study on the Tessellation in Mathematics Education

Tessellation is a kind of work of art that covers a plane with basic patterns without unfilled or overlapped parts to make beautiful and interesting pictures. Tessellation was found in acent Greece, Rome are and also fairly progressed in Arab. Nowadays Escher is one of the most famous in tessellation whose arts can be seen easily in our surroundings. Tessellation is a good theme to improve students creative thinking abilities. In the United States of America or European countries, tessellation is taught in secondary school mathematics classes. But, in Korea tessellation is not treated in mathematics classes. Therefore, this study aims are tessellation s concept, meaning, effect of tessellation upon mathematics education, supplies information and data that guide students to make tessellation. For further study, it is needed to develop actual lesson plans to teach effectively tessellations in mathematics classes.