Look up the word "symmetry" and you'll find these phrases: the correspondence in size, form and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line or point; balanced proportions; beauty ...

Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...

In this session the children think of symmetrical shapes they have observed in objects - such as buildings - and then recreate these together in groups. 1: Warm up: Moving parts of the body in ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that's covered with tiny squares? It's the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a 'periodic tiling of space', with shapes covering an ...