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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCafeteria Mayhem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsLesson in which students design a more efficient cafeteria for their school. They apply the concepts of volume, perimeter, circu...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNavy Sail Design
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson plan investigating sailboat design and the ways that the shape of a sail affect movement. The lesson introduces triangle ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline: Design and Math
Grades: 3 to 11Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryIn this set of activities, from PBS, students investigate how math plays an important role in artistic and creative endeavors su...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Four Types of Symmetry in the Plane
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, from the Math Forum, features information about different types of planar symmetry. Diagrams and examples help to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Geometer's Sketchpad and Tessellations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry and 2 additional..This Math Forum resource features a tutorial for making tessellations using the Geometer s Sketchpad. It includes step-by-step i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPythagorean Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis PBS interactive activity demonstrates the Pythagorean Theorem. By manipulating an interactive diagram, students are able to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn Reflection
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Calculus, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryThis Franklin Institute resource explores how symmetry can be used in codes. Certain letters and numbers have reflection symmetr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThings Impossible
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Calculus, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Functions and 3 additional..On this page from the Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles Web site, the idea of math trickery and the question of im...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProofs in Mathematics
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Calculus, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Functions and 2 additional..In this article from the Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles Web site, several mathematical proofs are described alon...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMath Forum: Measurement Resources
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Calculus, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, located on the Math Forum Web site, provides a list of resources for teaching various types of measurement, inclu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTessellation Tutorials
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Technology, Geometry, Mathematics, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsThese tutorials integrate art and geometry by showing students how to create tessellations with the aid of various graphics soft...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTessellations Home Page
Grades: 2 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryTessellations is an extensive Web site dedicated to a subject that combines art and math. This site includes examples of tessela...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDon't Fall In
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Geometry, Calculus, MathematicsThis resource, from the Figure This! Web site, provides an hands-on activity wherein students explore the nature of polygons t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Pascal's Triangle
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, located on the Math Forum Web site, contains a number of activities an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRegular Tessellations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryThis resource is an online activity in which students use a java applet to explore the properties of regular polygons by creatin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSelf-Similarity
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis lesson, created by Rice University mathematics professor Cynthia Lanius, introduces students to similar and self-similar fi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAbout a Line and a Triangle
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geometry, Algebra & Functions, MathematicsThis lesson from the Cut-the-Knot Web site, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, features a java applet that allows student...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFractals
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsFractals may or may not be a topic that you have considered studying with your class; however, this site, reviewed for grades 6-...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPythagorean Triples
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Number Sense, Geometry, Algebra & Functions, MathematicsThis activity, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, explores Pythagorean Triples, that is, triples of numbers so that a2+b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Visual Arts, Measurement & GeometryThis web page forms part of the Textile Museum Web site. From this page, users can explore the phenomena of symmetry and patter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0