Paul Klee

Notice anything? Are the words of the poem or the colors more important?

A tessellation is a shape that can interlock. A REGULAR tessellation is made up of congruent regular polygons only.

Look into the painting and see if you can identify any particular area(s) in the painting that is/are tessellated by one particular type of regular polygon.

Look into the painting and see if you can identify any particular area(s) in the painting that is/are tessellated by one particular type of regular polygon.

Our Project: We are going to use Klee's work as inspiration for our own work.   We'll also use MATH for our inspiration. Choose a one digit by one digit multiplication problem with a two digit answer.   Example: 7 x 7 = 49

Write that fact on your 1- inch graph paper Write that fact on your 1- inch graph paper. Be sure your numbers FILL the square on the grid. Let your teacher check your work. Write it 7 times in the pattern shown. Trace it with a marker (one color).

Next, forget that these are numbers and only look at the space made by each number. Color it in patterns/designs to make it visually interesting. Repeat the patterns for each fact, but try to use different patterns within the fact.