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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part one of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that demonstrates the potential fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Matter of Pattern
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, Number SenseIn this Science NetLinks lesson, students create and predict patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. Through this lesson, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentShape Search
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Engineering & Design, Mathematics, Visual ArtsThis reproducible activity sheet, from an Illuminations lesson, prompts students to list all the shapes they can find in photos ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes Art
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connectio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTesselations, Wow!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geometry, Writing Strategies, Music and 3 additional..This lesson, from PBS TeacherSource, introduces students to the concept of tessellations through the use of a variety of modalit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatch Tool
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, GeometryThis student interactive from Illuminations allows students to create patches like those used in quilting. Triangles, squares, p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating the Concept of Triangle and Properties of Polygons: Creating Polygons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis is part two of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that describes activities that use...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeometry Through Art
Grades: TK/K to 3Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry, Mathematics, Visual ArtsThis Web page from The Math Forum features an article by math teacher and artist Norman Shapiro. In this article, Shapiro descri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathematics and Children's Literature
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, LiteratureIn this five-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connections between math...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCommunity Geometry
Grades: 3 to 7Subjects: Geometry, Types of Media, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Science and 2 additional..This Web page from PBS TeacherSource Mathline describes activities to help students recognize geometric shapes and designs in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreate Geometric Art with Soap Films
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Mathematics, Geometry, Visual ArtsThis activity, from the Exploratorium, has students make three-dimensional figures using frames made of pipe cleaners and drinki...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPigging Out
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Literature, ProbabilityThis lesson plan, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, is inspired by children's natural curiosity about fantasy and fai...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Hunt
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to give students opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTangram Challenges
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use tangram pieces to form given polygons. Describing figu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLooking for Patterns
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use an online, interactive activity to analyze characteris...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShaping Patterns and Dancing Shapes
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Dance, Mathematics, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students verbally explain and then create with a stretch rope several geometric shapes (triangle, recta...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFractional Parts the "Tan" Way
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryIn this activity from Annenberg Media, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, students construct a 7-piece tangram from a 8...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraph Creator
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis Illuminations resource is a java applet that allows students to draw and manipulate graphs. This interactive math activity ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes at Work
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to look for shapes in both the natural and designed world; to investigate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Polygons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students make and compare a variety of polygons, describing the sal...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0