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Art and Math make an exciting combination! 
Students can explore, practice, and create math inspired art using the iPad.  Symmetrical design and Escher-like tessellations are two examples.

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Amaziograph
Amaziograph can create both symmetries and tessellations. There is a nice variety of choices in basic symmetries and tiling symmetries (tessellations). This app is only $.99 which is a great buy for such an impressive app. 


Below is a video from Tricia Fuglestad using the app with her students to create translational tessellations. 

Translational Tessellations using Amaziograph App from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

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iOrnament: draw creative geometry art
Create fascinating symmetrical designs with this app. Once you start it's hard to put down. This $.99 app has an incredible amount of controls to adjust. Many different symmetries can be explored.

Symmetry Lab Pro Basic

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Symmetry Lab Basic allows students to draw unique symmetrical line designs. This free version has basic features and a nice choice of colors. A drawback to this free version is that it doesn't allow you to easily save the image to your photo gallery. You can take a screen shot of it though. (To take a screen shot on your iPad hold down the home button and on/off wake button at the same time)
$.99 will get you an upgrade from the basic version. The paid version has a save feature and different kinds of symmetry options.
Below is a screen shot example of the free version.

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Help students learn about symmetry, slides, flips, and turns playing this game -

Symmetry Shuffle

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Symmetry Shuffle is a game that can be played by kids to help learn about symmetry and geometry. Puzzles are solved by sliding, flipping, and turning artfully designed images. This app is $1.99
Along with hours of practice on these math concepts, the artistic images can inspire students to create their own artwork based on these math concepts. 

Below is a screen shot from Symmetry Shuffle.

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