Basics
A closed shape made of straight lines, that has corners (vertex).
What is a polygon?
What is rotation?
Regular polygons such as square, triangle and hexagon can only form these puzzles.
What are the only shapes to make tessellations?
For these polygons, all sides are equal.
What is a regular polygon?
The point where a shape is rotated.
What is the point of rotation?
It means "many corners" in greek.
What is a polygon?
For these polygons, not all sides are equal.
What is an irregular polygon?
Shifting a shape up, down, left and right.
What is translation?
They all add up to 180 degrees in a polygon.
What is an angle?
Another name for corner.
What is a vertex?
The mirror-image of a shape.
What is reflection?
Equal sides=different angles
Unequal sides=same angles
What are the rules of irregular polygons?
When a shape stays the same when flipped, rotated, or reflected.
What is congruency?
The line where a shape is reflected to create a mirror-image.
What is the line of reflection?
What are tesselations?