MATHEMATICS

Grade 8

Tessellation
 Characteristics of
Tessellation
• A pattern
• Can use regular and irregular polygons
• No gaps
• Interior angle at the vertex point should be 360
• No overlapping
• Repeated pattern
Covering a certain space using one or more
shapes, in a repeated pattern, without gaps
and without overlaps is called tessellation . An
arrangement of shapes of this form is also
called tessellation.
 Pure Tessellation
If a tessellation consists of one shape only, it is
called a pure tessellation.
Activity Observe the following figures.
Without using a geometrical shapes, draw another
pure tessellation.
 Find some examples for pure tessellations that can be seen in our
environment.
1 2
Activity

3 4

Select the
tessellations.

5 6

7 8
 Semi - Pure Tessellation
 If a tessellation consists of two or more shapes, it
is called a semi-pure tessellation.
 For each of the following tessellations, write with reasons whether it is
a pure tessellation or a semi-pure tessellation.
1
2 3

semi-pure tessellation.
semi-pure tessellation. semi-pure tessellation.
Rhombus
Square Equilateral triangles
Parallelogram
Regular octahedron Squares
Parallelogram
4 5 6

pure tessellation pure tessellation Semi-pure tessellation

Equilateral triangles
Regular hexgon
7 8 9

pure tessellation semi pure tessellation

pure tessellation
Square
Parallelogram
10 11 12

pure tessellation Semi pure tessellation pure tessellation

Square Rhombus
Trapezium
Regular Tessellation
 A polygon with sides of equal length and interior
angles of equal magnitude is a regular polygon.

Eg: Equilateral triangle

Square
Regular pentagon
Regular hexagon
60 90

120

I
II
VI
 Regular Tessellation
A tessellation created using only one regular polygonal shape is
known as a regular tessellation.
We can create regular tessellations by using the following figures.