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Mathematics (NYS P-12 Common Core)

Description

Students examine some isometric drawings that seem to be impossible and investigate one way Escher used to create these "impossible" figures.

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Are They Possible?

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Related Academic Standards

New York State

7.G.2 Draw (freehand, with ruler and protractor, and with technology) geometric shapes with given conditions. Focus on constructing triangles from three measures of angles or sides, noticing when the conditions determine a unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.