Symmetry

This site has some fantastic ideas and links. Just about all you need for this topic.

http://www.adrianbruce.com/Symmetry/

Use the word "symmetry" to search in Edna - a fantastic resource

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/search?qt=symmetry&sr=edna

Lots More Sites On Symmetry

Using "Logo" to create polygons. http://www.ies.co.jp/math/products/geo1/applets/logo/logo.html

If the triangle looks the same after you spin it or flip it over, then it has symmetry. Look at the site below.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/qtoq/ed_symm.html#activities Then explore the triangle section at http://www-ed.fnal.gov/qtoq/tri_sq.html

Fibonacci Numbers - puzzles.
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibpuzzles.html

About symmetry, asymmetry, and symmetry-breaking in Oriental carpets. Discuss these building blocks of pattern -- in nature and in art.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/geometry/rugs/students
Follow some of our suggestions for student activities here.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu//geometry/rugs/resources/act/sym.html
Teacher resource page.

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/teachers/middle/fun.html
Games - Mazes http://geometrygames.org/TorusGames/index.html

For further study!

3-D Molecular Composition
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/

3D Puzzles -like Rubik's Cube

Wayne
May 2004