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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCynthia Lanius' Lesson: Polyominoes
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, Mathematics, GeometryThis Illuminations Web resource activity helps students to make connections between geometry and algebra (curve-fitting), assign...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCynthia Lanius' Lesson: Rectangle Pattern Challenges
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis Illuminations Web resource presents a growing rectangle that is colored in a particular pattern of colors. The first three ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThinkQuest: Totally Tessellated
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis site from ThinkQuest basically provides you anything you might want to know about tessellations. The sites provides thoroug...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTypes of Angles
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis on-line tutorial, from the Math Cove at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, walks students through a number of conc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Pi
Grades: 5 to 7Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, CalculusThis activity, from the Math Forum at Drexel University, allows students to compare the circumference and diameter of a circle i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentGraph It!
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Addition & Subtraction, Geography, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis and 4 additional..This lesson plan, provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, will help bring the census to life for your students! Teach skills that c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLooking at Statistics Through Circles
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Geometry, Mathematics and 2 additional..In this activity, from Texas Instruments, students explore two-variable statistics and how to use the calculator to compute them...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAngles
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis page provides three labs, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, that teachers can use to help their students build imp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFire Hydrant
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, CalculusThis activity, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, challenges students to relate some geometric shapes that surround us e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPolyominoes
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, CalculusWith this resource, from Cynthia Lanius at Rice University, students explore a variety of polyominoes including pentaminoes, hex...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSelf-Similarity
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis resource, from Cynthia Lanius at Rice University, offers students an introduction to similar and self-similar figures. The ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTechnique Demo: Making 3D Forms
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis page from the Sanford Corporation's Create Art Web site contains directions on creating 3-dimensional forms out of paper or...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Picture Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Trigonometry/Pre-CalculusThis on-line tutorial, from the Math cove, walks students through a visual proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Students control th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRectangle Pattern Challenges
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis activity, from Cynthia Lanius at Rice University, presents a growing rectangular design in three stages. Students are asked...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSurface Area of a Sphere
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, MathematicsIn this lesson, from the Math Forum at Drexel University, students learn the derivation of the formula for determining the surfa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTessellations: Geometry and Symmetry
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., allows students to examine tessellations and their geometric properties...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., allows students to examine the mathematical nature of art, tilings, and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMargo Mankus: Area Formula Lab: 6-8 Geometry
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Mathematics and 2 additional..This resource is provided by Dr. Margo Lynn Mankus from George Mason University. Formulas are often presented to students as ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeasurement via Triangulation
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Science, Human Space ExplorationLesson plan that uses triangulation techniques to determine measurements, including the altitudes of objects. Includes printable...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPerfumania
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of DesignActivity in which students find the volume of various perfume/cologne bottle designs and create their own bottle design for a ne...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0