Symmetry and Transformations: Hands-On Activity
#4 (large image)
Confirm Glide Reflective Symmetry --- Totally Tessellated
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Instructions: Print two copies of page (preferably on lightweight or tracing
paper) and then close this window. Line up the two pages. Then, keeping the bottom
page steady, fold the top page along the dotted line shown below. Take the folded
page and move it in the direction and magnitude of the straight arrow. The bottom
page should be now uncovered, and the overall pattern (including the top page which
should be showing through slightly) is a continuation of the tessellation. Thus,
the tessellation has glide reflective symmetry.