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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhich Pocket?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & Functions, ProbabilityIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students continue their investigation of the Paper Pool game by dis...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTraffic Jam Activity
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & Functions, Technology, CalculusIn this traffic jam activity, students are given a problem to solve which incorporates logical reasoning and algebra. Students ...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 / 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 / HyperLinkToads and Frogs Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Algebra & Functions, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis resource, from Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, features a logic puzzle. The puzzle requires some innovative...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThree Houses, Three Utilities
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, CalculusThis classic mathematical logic problem has stumped many over the years. This problem asks, There are three houses and three u...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Problem of Points
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Probability, Data Analysis, Statistics, and 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Missing Dollar
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Addition & Subtraction, CalculusThis classic mathematical logic problem has stumped many over the years. The problem is a cleverly phrased arithmetic problem d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe "Locker Problem"
Grades: 7 to 9Subjects: MathematicsThis is an activity to explore the classic math problem involving student lockers. There is also a wonderful applet that can sh...Contributor: Brian AuslandViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Fibonacci Series: Apartment Buildings
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityPart of the Fibonacci Series from the ThinkQuest library, this educational webpage applies a Fibonacci pattern to painting apart...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Fibonacci Series
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Engineering & Design, Number Sense, Visual Arts, History-Social ScienceThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to appreciate and investigate a numerical pattern and to look for evidence...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 / HyperLinkSupreme Court Welcome
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsIn this unit of two lessons, from Illuminations, students experience triangular numbers in an interesting, real world context--t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSupreme Court Handshake
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Algebra & FunctionsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore the handshake problem, a classic problem in mathem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSolve the Puzzle of the Seashell Spiral
Grades: 5 to 9Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityAt this site, part of an online exhibit on the Renaissance from Annenberg Media Learner.org, students will learn about the Fibon...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSkydome Review Unit
Grades: 7 to 10Subjects: Mathematics, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension 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 / 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 / HyperLinkPeople Patterns
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis interactive activity, from Annenberg Media, invites students to try to figure out who should come next in a line of people,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatterns in Fractals
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is designed to introduce students to patterns and fractals. The goal is...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0