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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatch Tool
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis student interactive from Illuminations allows students to create patches like those used in quilting. Triangles, squares, p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCommunity Geometry
Grades: 3 to 7Subjects: Science, Visual Arts, Types of Media, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..This Web page from PBS TeacherSource Mathline describes activities to help students recognize geometric shapes and designs in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTesselations, Wow!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Visual Arts, Music, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry and 3 additional..This lesson, from PBS TeacherSource, introduces students to the concept of tessellations through the use of a variety of modalit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFractional Parts the "Tan" Way
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsIn this activity from Annenberg Media, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, students construct a 7-piece tangram from a 8...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreate Geometric Art with Soap Films
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry, MathematicsThis activity, from the Exploratorium, has students make three-dimensional figures using frames made of pipe cleaners and drinki...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFire Hydrant
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis online activity from Figure This!, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, examines the geometry of the fire hydrant and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating the Concept of Triangle and Properties of Polygons: Creating Polygons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis is part two of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that describes activities that use...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part one of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that demonstrates the potential fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Challenges
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part two of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that demonstrates the potential fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTangrams
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis set of activities, from the Math Forum at Drexel University, uses tangrams to compute the area of polygons without formulas...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConstructing Your Own Set of Tangrams
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry, Measurement & Geometry and 2 additional..This Web page is part of a Math Forum Web Unit on tangrams. On this page, students or teachers can follow a set of simple, illu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeometry Through Art
Grades: TK/K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry, Visual Arts, MathematicsThis Web page from The Math Forum features an article by math teacher and artist Norman Shapiro. In this article, Shapiro descri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating the Concept of Triangle and the Properties of Polygons: Making Triangles
Grades: 6Subjects: Geometric Figures, Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsInvestigating the Concept of Triangle and the Properties of Polygons: Making Triangles - This two-part example describes activit...Contributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Hunt
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to give students opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes at Work
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to look for shapes in both the natural and designed world; to investigate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Matter of Pattern
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, Number SenseIn this Science NetLinks lesson, students create and predict patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. Through this lesson, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraph Creator
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis Illuminations resource is a java applet that allows students to draw and manipulate graphs. This interactive math activity ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShaping Patterns and Dancing Shapes
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Mathematics, DanceIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students verbally explain and then create with a stretch rope several geometric shapes (triangle, recta...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPigging Out
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Probability, Literature, Mathematics, English-Language ArtsThis lesson plan, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, is inspired by children's natural curiosity about fantasy and fai...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeometric Understanding Through Tangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this two-lesson unit from Illuminations, students use tangram pieces to fill in a picture's outline and form given polygons. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0