Maths Week 2025 – Tessellations

Tessellating ceiling design

Creating an irregular polygon stencil for tessellation design

Maths Week runs from Tuesday 14th October to Friday 17th October 2025 here in the library.  We will host twice daily sessions the first at 9.45am – 10.45am and a second session at 11.15am – 12.15pm.

This year we are looking at tessellating shapes found often in our books on architecture. This covers concepts in Transformations and Shapes in the Primary Mathematics curriculum, particulary for the 3rd & 4th classes, but will suit all junior classes.

The students will briefly explore which regular shapes tesselate, what semi-regular tesselations are and learn how to produce their own irregular shape to create a fun repeating tessellation design like our cats (on the right here).

Sessions available are:

TUESDAY 14th   1st session BOOKED   2nd session BOOKED

WEDNESDAY 15th   1st session BOOKED (tbc)   2nd session BOOKED

THURSDAY 16th   1st session BOOKED   2nd session BOOKED

FRIDAY 17th   1st session BOOKED   2nd session BOOKED

NB: We can take classes the following week if we are fully booked during Maths Week.

(Tues 21st -Thursday 23rd now BOOKED)

To book a session please contact me via email at:  julie.burke@marshlibrary.ie