Did you know that tesselations are a part of the Montessori cirriculum...
falling somewhere between sensorial and geometry;or maybe better
stated a sensorial application of geometric shapes? MWEI has
a nice webpage and illustrations here:
http://homepage.mac.com/montessoriworld/mwei/sensory/stessel.html
A video presentation is here:
http://homepage.mac.com/montessoriworld/mwei/Course1/VideoCourse1/Tessellation.html
shapes in trays following this idea which you can find here:
http://youngmindsatplay.com/tessellation_square
http://youngmindsatplay.com/tessellation_rectangular
Here are the patterns for the shapes to make control cards etc. :
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