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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 / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, 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: Website / HyperLinkPieces of Proof
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis 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 / HyperLinkDon't Fall In
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Calculus, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkPrize Numbers
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryIn this New York Times Learning Network lesson, reviewed by Illuminations for grades 9-12, students explore what a proof is, how...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 / 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 / HyperLinkTilings from Historical Sources
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, 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 / HyperLinkEratosthenes
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Mathematics, World History, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkMathematics and Art -- Perspective
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Mathematics, History & Culture, Visual Arts, GeometryThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses the interactions between mathematics and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDoubling the Cube
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses doubling the cube, one of three classica...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnglish Attack on the Longitude Problem
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geography, Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkHow Archimedes Found the Area of a Circle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis resource, from the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia, walks students through Archimedes method ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLogical Art and the Art of Logic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & Geometry, History-Social Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, PhilosophyThis resource, from Guenter Albrecht-Buehler of Northwestern University, features a collection of information on pentominoes, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
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 / HyperLinkVisual Patterns in Tessellations
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Measurement & Geometry, 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 / HyperLinkMirror Tool
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis student interactive, from Illuminations, can be used to investigate symmetry. Students can view the results when they flip,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetries I: Conclusions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students reflect on what they have learned in the previous lessons....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDescribing Reflections
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn how reflections work and what happens when two or mo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0