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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Iteration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is a review of iteration. There are three problems to check students' understanding of iteration.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shifting Cells

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of algorithms. Students are at first given a string of cells (one-dimensional), and then told to iterate the cells according to a couple basic...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Self Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Apply the concept of self-similarity.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Self Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces students to self-similarity and presents several common examples of self-similarity.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Self Similarity Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at several examples of self-similarity.
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: The Chaos Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Play the Chaos Game by experimenting with probabilities. Learn about an apparently random process with a not-so-random, geometric fractal result.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
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Unit Plan
Boston University

Boston University: Chaos, Fractals and Arcadia

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interesting site for information on chaos and fractals. Includes links to interactive activities to learn more.
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Unit Plan
Boston University

Bu: Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set

For Students 9th - 10th
This site progresses in iterations through Mandelbrot and Julia sets to explain fractals and the mathematics behind them.
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Activity
Education Development Center

Iteration

For Students 9th - 10th
Making Mathematics provides a brief explanation and a list of examples of iterations.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Fractals

For Students 9th - 10th
This page briefly illustrates and discusses fractals, which are closely linked to the concept of iteration (repitition.) Site links to well known pictured fractals.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fractals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides some links to activities and lesson plans dealing with fractals and chaos.
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Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Iteration and Recursion Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These discrete math activities utilize the concepts of iteration and recursion. Students work in a group to solve real-world problems.
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Activity
Other

Research Pages: Circle Inversion Fractals

For Students 9th - 10th
This site introduces the iteration of circle inversions and describes the associated properties.
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Unit Plan
Other

Eal: Fract Ed

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource for beginners. The site begins with a definition of iteration of functions, and proceeds from there to discuss fractal dimension.
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Newton's Method

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides an example demonstrating the iterative method of finding the roots of a function using derivatives.
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Interactive
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Mystery Math

For Students 6th - 8th
Amaze your friends with this number trick! Mystery Math is a number game that allows you to guess another person's secret number. If you want to play Mystery Math with the computer, you will need a pencil, a piece of paper and a...