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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating Tessellations Using Activity Pattern Blocks
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Geometry and 2 additional..This Math Forum site offers activities for making tessellations using pattern blocks including step-by-step instructions for cla...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFractory
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.This page, from the ThinkQuest Web site, will help you learn what fractals are and how to design them. This resource is referenc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathematical Scavenger Hunt
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsIn this activity, from the Math Forum, students are asked to go on a scavenger hunt to find the values assigned to different let...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatterns in Fractals
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & GeometryThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is designed to introduce students to patterns and fractals. The goal is...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToads and Frogs Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Algebra & Functions, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, from Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, features a logic puzzle. The puzzle requires some innovative...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraffic Jam
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsThis activity, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, presents the problem, there are seven stepping stones and six people. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFind a Pattern with "One Grain of Rice"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Measurement & GeometryIn this lesson from the Educator s Reference Desk, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, students read the story One Grain ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraffic Jam Activity
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsThis Math Forum activity, reviewed for grades 3-5 by Illuminations, poses a challenging puzzle in which there are seven stepping...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraffic Jam Activity
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsThis Math Forum activity, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, poses a challenging puzzle in which there are seven stepping...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSalaries
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsIn this Figure This! activity, reviewed for grades 9-12 by Illuminations, students analyze data on men s and women s salaries th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Bridges of Konigsberg
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, CalculusThis Math Forum resource, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, introduces students to the famous Bridges of Konigsberg pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJAVA Puzzles
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Number Sense, Measurement & Geometry, CalculusThis web page from Enchanted Mind, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, provides teachers and students with a collection of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGrade Eight Problems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, CalculusThis collection of word problems from University of St. Xavier, reviewed for grades 6-8 by Illuminations, can be used to develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBaseball: Stadium Consultants
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, History-Social Science, Economics, CalculusIn this PBS lesson, the class forms a business partnership of stadium consultants. Each student consultant has been called in to...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOur Towns: Math Activities
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, History-Social Science, Economics, CalculusThis PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies their presentation Our Towns, which features local economies. This guide contains suggest...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDebating Topics on Mathematics
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.This article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, offers a collection of mathematical debates, inclu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeometry Through Art
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual ArtsIn this unit, math is explored through geometric drawing activities. These Web pages provide useful activities and ready-made w...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSkydome Review Unit
Grades: 7 to 10Subjects: Mathematics, Reading Comprehension, American Democracy, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..In this unit, students are given an online or printed current event publication. Students answer straightforward and applied ma...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDigital Images: From Satellites to the Internet
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Earth & Space Science, Algebra & Functions and 3 additional..In this set of activities, from Burns Telecommunications Center, students will learn about digital images and how satellites orb...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Problem of Points
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Probability, CalculusAn age-old gambling problem led to the development of probability theory by French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat in the seven...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0