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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 / 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 / HyperLinkUnderstanding Congruence, Similarity, and Symmetry Using Transformations and Interactive Figures: Composing Transformations
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part four of a four-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that allows users to manipulate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlgebraic Transformations
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsIn this unit of two lessons, from Illuminations, students learn about the commutative and associative properties using geometric...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Geometry, Measurement & 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: DocumentDiagonals and Quadrilaterals Answer Key
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis reproducible answer sheet, from an Illuminations lesson, contains sample results and conclusions for an activity in which s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnglish Attack on the Longitude Problem
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses how English mathematicians, in the middl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
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 / HyperLinkHow Far Do I Travel, How Far Do I Go
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Calculus, Addition & SubtractionThis lesson, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, asks students to investigate whether or not airline tickets are priced f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTilings from Historical Sources
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Mathematics, Visual Arts & Performing 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 / HyperLinkAbout a Line and a Triangle
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Algebra & FunctionsThis 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 / 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 / HyperLinkLogical Art and the Art of Logic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, History-Social Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, from Guenter Albrecht-Buehler of Northwestern University, features a collection of information on pentominoes, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCovering the Plane with Rep-Tiles
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, from Illuminations, students discover and explore a special kind of tiling of the plane. Rep-tiles are geometric...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Geometry, Measurement & 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 / HyperLinkTessellation Tutorials
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Technology, Geometry, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkRecognizing Transformations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..This lesson introduces students to the world of symmetry and rotation in figures and patterns. Students learn how to recognize a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Geometer's Sketchpad and Tessellations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Measurement & 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 / HyperLinkDiagonals to Quadrilaterals
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this Illuminations lesson, students start with the diagonals and deduce the type of quadrilateral that surrounds them. Using ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0