Complete the Lesson 1 Assignment that you saved in your course folder at the beginning of the lesson. Show work to support your answers.
Save your responses in your course folder.
Go to Module 1 Project: Designing with Transformations. Review what is expected. Begin to think of a design that you will use for this project once you finish the module lessons. The project will require all the transformations you will learn in this module, so you may want to delay starting the project until you are more familiar with these transformations.
Remember to save all of your notes in your course folder.
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Tessellation is a combination of mathematics and artistic ability. A tessellation is a pattern of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. They frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher. Enter his name into a search engine to see some of his work.
Escher was inspired by the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles (illustrated here). If you were to start with the green star in the top left-hand corner of the visual, can you describe the translation to get to the blue star? If you started with the same green star, describe the translation to the rust-coloured star that is below the green star.
