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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 / HyperLinkTransformations and Frieze Patterns
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsIn 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 / HyperLinkThings Impossible
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Calculus, Algebra & Functions, Functions and 3 additional..On this page from the Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles Web site, the idea of math trickery and the question of im...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 / HyperLinkThe Human Body
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Mathematics, Measurement & GeometryThis resource, from GoldenNumber.net, offers information about how the human body illustrates the Golden Section or Divine Propo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTechnique Demonstration: Oval Action Figures
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, History & Culture, Mathematics, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis page from the Sanford Corporation's Create Art site features a demonstration of the technique of drawing figures using oval...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetries II
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this unit of four lessons, from Illuminations, students use Java applets to investigate reflection, mirror, or bilateral symm...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 / HyperLinkSoda Cans
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsThis student interactive, from an Illuminations lesson, allows students to explore what happens to soda cans when the cans at th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSchool-bus Geometry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsThis resource, from the Cynthia Lanius at Rice University, introduces school-bus geometry - an unusual way to measure distance...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOn Top of the World
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, Algebra & Functions, MathematicsIf you were standing on the top of Mount Everest, how far would you be able to see to the horizon? In this lesson, students will...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNCTM Illuminations- How Many Triangles Can You Construct?
Grades: 6Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, MathematicsNCTM Illuminations- How Many Triangles Can You Construct? - These investigations in geometry begins with an open-ended question ...Contributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLogical Art and the Art of Logic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Philosophy, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from Guenter Albrecht-Buehler of Northwestern University, features a collection of information on pentominoes, th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHospital Locator
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this Illuminations lesson, students begin with a problem in a real-world context to motivate the need to construct circumcent...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnglish Attack on the Longitude Problem
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geography, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, History-Social ScienceThis article, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, discusses how English mathematicians, in the middl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDescribing Rotations
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn how to describe rotations of a figure. They then use...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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDelta Blocks
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis resource, from Hop s Delta Blocks, provides an overview of delta blocks, which were inspired by M.C. Escher s print Flatwo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChickscope 1.5: Explore: EggMath: The Shape of an Egg
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThis activity from Chickscope is a part of the EggMath site which looks at the mathematics of eggs. In this module, students loo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0