Annotated Bibliography
Barker, William, and Roger Howe. Continuous Symmetry: From Euclid to Klein. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2007. The authors describe this text as intended for a one-semester course on geometry. Definitely beyond my level of understanding, but the information on frieze patterns was helpful.
du Sautoy, Marcus. Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. Written in narrative form, this is a very accessible and entertaining journey into the life of a mathematician.
Lappan, Glenda, and James T. Frey, William M. Fitzgerald, Susan N. Friel, and Elizabeth Difanis Phillips. Kaleidoscopes, Hubcaps, and Mirrors: Symmetry and Transformations. Boston, MA: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. This is the teachers' edition for the CMP2 eighth grade unit. It is an excellent resource for definitions, illustrations, and lesson plans.
Libeskind, Shlomo. Euclidean and Transformational Geometry: A Deductive Inquiry. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2008. Written in textbook form with lots of exercises. Easier to read than some other textbooks; Chapter 5 on isometries and size transformations was helpful.
Seymour, Dale, and Jill Britton. Introduction to Tessellations. Parsippany, NJ:
Dale Seymour Publications, 1989. Basic explanations of symmetry transformations and excellent illustrations.
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