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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhite/Yolk Theorem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkVirtual Polyhedra
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkUnderstanding Ratios of Areas of Inscribed Figures Using Interactive Diagrams
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn Illuminations lesson, students explore an interesting quantitative relationship between the area of a polygon and the area of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, GeometryIn 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 / HyperLinkTilings from Historical Sources
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, 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 / 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: DocumentThink of a Quadrilateral
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis reproducible transparency, from an Illuminations lesson, asks students to draw and describe a quadrilateral constructed fro...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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Soccer Problem
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsA soccer player is on a breakaway, dribbling the ball downfield, parallel to a sideline. From where should she shoot to have the...Contributor: Brian AuslandViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetries I: Conclusions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students reflect on what they have learned in the previous lessons....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrize Numbers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryIn 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 / HyperLinkPolygon Capture: A Geometry Game
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, from Illuminations, students classify polygons according to more than one property at a time. They move from a s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPieces of Proof
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkMirror Tool
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis student interactive, from Illuminations, can be used to investigate symmetry. Students can view the results when they flip,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathematics and Art -- Perspective
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Mathematics, History & Culture, GeometryThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses the interactions between mathematics and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathApplications -- Lines
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis collection of links, compiled by Hawaii s Public Schools, features lines and shapes formed from lines, including polygons, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLogical Art and the Art of Logic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Philosophy, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from Guenter Albrecht-Buehler of Northwestern University, features a collection of information on pentominoes, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Archimedes Found the Area of a Circle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis resource, from the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia, walks students through Archimedes method ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHospital Locator
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this student interactive, from an Illuminations lesson, students act as community planners, trying to place a new medical cen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0