{"id":764,"date":"2020-12-07T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=764"},"modified":"2023-06-01T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T10:50:32","slug":"christmas-tree-tessellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/12\/07\/christmas-tree-tessellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Tessellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Math and art come together. A tessellation is a shape that can be repeated over and over in a pattern with no space in between.<\/p>\n<p>Start with print out the template.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to color the trees before you cut them out. I glued on all our trees on poster board in the tessellating pattern. (Kids can totally do this themselves \u2013 it just may not line up q<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/tess-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/tess-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/tess.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>uite as nicely as mine!)<\/p>\n<p>When you glue them down, let the black lines overlap between trees.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to glue down your trees if you draw a straight line as a guide.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel for a collaborative project, make a big Christmas tree out of all the small ones. My Christmas tree below is made out of 64 small ones. That will make a tree of approximately 80 cm height.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/12\/07\/christmas-tree-tessellation\/\">Template for the Christmas Trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-766\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/Tess-2-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/Tess-2-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/12\/Tess-2.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 85vw, 183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I say thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/frugalfun4boys.com\/\">FrugalFun4Boys.com<\/a> for the idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math and art come together. A tessellation is a shape that can be repeated over and over in a pattern with no space in between. Start with print out the template. It\u2019s easier to color the trees before you cut them out. I glued on all our trees on poster board in the tessellating pattern. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/12\/07\/christmas-tree-tessellation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dChristmas Tree Tessellation\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}