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This activity has multiple solutions. It is interesting to allow students to show their choices and try to work on the search for simple, simple marks or references that allow us to generate the whole drawing.

The motif can be shifted linearly, rotated or mirrored¡. The important thing is that the different motifs cannot overlap each other to form the pattern.

She was a contemporary of great mathematicians and physicists of the time such as Mileva Maric; Marie Curie (1867-1934), a pioneer in the field of radioactivity who won two Nobel prizes; Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973), who applied probability in the field of genetics; and Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876-1964), who worked in statistical mechanics. Also by Charlotte Angas Scott (1838-1931), a specialist in algebra and geometry and a fighter for the incorporation of women into universities.

Her predecessors with important contributions in mathematics and science were Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) and Nicole Lepaute (1723-1788).

Emmy Noether worked on the interpretation of the Theory of Relativity, in which Mileva Maric (1875-1948) participated with her husband, Albert Einstein, and the mathematicians Hilbert and Klein. Virginia Ragsdale, the American mathematician known for the Ragsdale conjecture, also worked with them.

She received her doctorate from the University of Erlangen, the second woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from a German university. Marie Gernet (1895) had already obtained her doctorate, followed shortly afterwards by Frieda Nugel (1912).

Due to the rise of the Nazi movement, she lost her job and was forced to emigrate to the United States. There, she worked as a professor at Bryn Mawr College, where the mathematicians Hilda Geiringer, Anna Wheeler and Charlotte Angas Scott also worked.  Women's schools in the US played an important role at that time, as it was a space where women could access jobs. 

Other contemporary figures include the engineer Anna Wagner, the inventors Lady Edison and Maria Beasley, the teacher Rosa Sensat i Vilà, the writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the food scientist and Philippine army captain during the Second World War Maria Orosa, and the Yugoslav composer Ljubica Marić.

A crater in the dark side of the moon and the asteroid 7001 are named after her.

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We will work on plane geometry through different mosaics. The objective is to find the motif that repeats itself in each mosaic and then create our own one.

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