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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThinkQuest: Totally Tessellated
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis 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 / 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 / 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 / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityIn 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: Measurement & Geometry, Geography, History-Social Science, Mathematics, 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: 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 / 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 / HyperLinkTilings from Historical Sources
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Visual Arts, Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / HyperLinkDiscovering the Area Formula for Triangles
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn the area formula for a triangle. Students find the a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLogical Art and the Art of Logic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Philosophy, History-Social Science, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis resource, from Guenter Albrecht-Buehler of Northwestern University, features a collection of information on pentominoes, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDon't Fall In
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Calculus, Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Geometry, 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 / HyperLinkEratosthenes
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, World History, Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkMathApplications -- Lines
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis 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 / 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