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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrize Numbers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsIn this New York Times Learning Network lesson, reviewed by Illuminations for grades 9-12, students explore what a proof is, how...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVirtual Polyhedra
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis resource created by George Hart, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, is an online encyclopedia of polyhedra. The sit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhite/Yolk Theorem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis resource, from the Chickscope Web site, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, is an activity in which students are ask...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTilings from Historical Sources
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Measurement & Geometry and 2 additional..Reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, this page is part of a Web site on tiling. Not only is it a good reference for teach...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEratosthenes
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geometry, World History, Geography, MathematicsThis resource from HyperHistory Online is a brief biography of Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar. His work in calculating the circum...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathematics and Art -- Perspective
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History & Culture, Mathematics, Visual ArtsThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses the interactions between mathematics and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDoubling the Cube
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses doubling the cube, one of three classica...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnglish Attack on the Longitude Problem
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, History-Social Science, Geography, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, MathematicsThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses how English mathematicians, in the middl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Archimedes Found the Area of a Circle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis resource, from the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia, walks students through Archimedes method ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsIn two lessons, this unit will introduce students to the world of symmetry and rotation in figures and patterns. Students learn ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPieces of Proof
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis lesson offers an intermediate step of putting together the statements and reasons to build a formal geometry proof. There i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Stirring Stick
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.If you are like most industrial education teachers you probably show a video when you know ahead of time that you have to be abs...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0