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Tessellations are a beautiful melding of math and art and students enjoy creating them. Tessellate within Shodor, one of these interactive sites, is fun and easy to use. Shodor is a comprehensive visual interactive resource for math educators that I recently found out about on the Teachers First website. There is an easy to understand how to with visual directions. Try it out.Here are a few other resources that I have found for creating tessellations.

Jo Edkins…create Tessellations

Tessellations.org…comprehensive with many examples

Thinkfinity Illuminations site has an excellent Tessellation creation tool.