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Math Vocabulary Words:
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Latin roots provide the opportunity to connect your math lesson plans to larger vocabulary building exercises.
The Latin root tessera means a token or a small square tile.
Romans used tesserae as tickets to get into the colloseum.
They used tesserae to piece together beautiful mosaics.
The diminutive form, tessella, means a small tile or shingle. This word especially came to describe the small tiles used in works of art.
So when it comes time to teach the mathematical concept of tesselation, why not include this Latin root and a few other English derivatives worth knowing?
Here are the top English words with the Latin root TESSERA/TESSELLA:
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