What are tessellations; tessellations are repeated shapes that have no gaps or spaces within the pattern.

One of the few regular polygons that are tessellations is a hexatessellation or a hexagon.

*An example of a hexatessellation is a beehive.

Step 1: First thing you want to do to make a hexatessellation is to open GeoGebra.com

Step 2: In the top left corner, click on the pentagon then click on two desired points on the graph(how long you want one side to be), a pop-up will appear and in the text box you want to type 6 to make a perfect hexagon.

Step 3: Use the pen tool under the mouse picture in the top left corner and draw a line on one side of the hexagon.

Step 4: Click on the Rotate Around Point button that is in the pulldown 3rd from the last one. Once you've done that, select the line you just drew and then click the point you want to rotate it around. A pop will appear telling you how much do you want to rotate it, type 120 to rotate to the side adjacent to it.

Step 5: Repeat Step 3 & 4 until all the sides of the hexagon have a line on the outside or the inside.

Step 6: Right click on the hexagon, a pop-up will appear and you will want to uncheck the "Show Object" box to hide the hexagon; do the same to the points.

Step 7: Save your work so that nothing happens to it in the future just in case something happens.

Step 8: Print your object and make as big or as small as you want (note that the bigger you make it, the less of it will trace on the paper; the smaller you make it, the more of it you will trace on the paper)

Step 9: Cut out the object that you just printed to the best of you abilities.

Step 10: Trace the figure on a piece of black paper

Step 11: Keep tracing the figure on the paper but make it so that it connects to the other traced images and that there are no visible gaps

Step 12: Come up with a design for you figure, it can be anything that you like

Step 13: Redraw the design onto the paper on all of the tessellations.

Congrats! You've finished your hexatessellation!