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A Brief History of Religion in Art
Did you know that some languages have no word for art? The English language does and the narrator of this short video discusses the aesthetic dimension of religious art as it "visually communicates meaning beyond language."
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Artful Names
Students look at several illuminations on the first pages of books. They compare these illuminations to an alphabet book, noting the similarities and the dissimilarities. Students look at various type fonts in a typography book or on a...
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Looking at Illuminated Manuscripts: An Illuminated Day Planner
Students examine the contents of a book of hours and then compare it to the modern day-planner. They create class day-planners/ calendars with illuminations that correspond to modern holidays and season.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Bobbie Bear's Vacation Outfits
Help Bobbie Bear figure out how many outfits he could make with his shirts and pants. He can have up to 5 shirts and 4 pants. Figure out all the possible combinations.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Tube Viewer Simulation
A computer simulation of viewing through various lengths of tubes at different distances. The simulation also has an exploration of focus questions. [Requires Java.]
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Nctm: Illuminations: Pan Balance Numbers
Use this tool to find out if expressions are equal to each other. If the pan balance levels out then the expressions are equal.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Flowing Through Mathematics
Students will use this computer applet to simulate water running out of a tube. By varying the tube diameter and noting time changes and the height of the water in the tube students will create a formula to fit the curves of height...
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Nctm: Illuminations: Codes
This is a computer based program that allows students to understand basic cryptography which utilizes transformations of shifting and stretching. Students may encode their own message and see it graphically.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Cube Nets
Interactive site where students find which nets are able to form a cube.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Cutting Corners
Students will use their knowledge of plane figure attributes to create and view shapes by cutting and rotating shapes to stimulate discussions on names and attributes of various shapes they do not regularly encounter.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Fraction Game
Students use their knowledge equivalent fractions and their ability to compare fractions to play this computer based game.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Igd: Area of a Rectangle
Use this interactive tool to learn how to find the area of a rectangle. Click on "Instructions" for details on how to use this tool. Click on "Explore" for more ideas.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Adjustable Spinner
An adjustable spinner to provide random spins of a computer based spinner for any mathematical experiment requiring random spins.
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Nctm: Illuminations: State Data Map
Data can be displayed in a variety of ways. This interactive map of the United States shows data by degrees of color. Choose to display data such as: land area, population, population density, gas use, and much more.
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Nctm: Illuminations: The Product Game
In the Product Game, learners start with factors and multiply to find the product. There are four parts to this investigation.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Computing Pi
This resource investigates approximating the value of pi through the calculation of perimeters of inscribed or circumscribed polygons. The interactive tool allows learners to examine and compare both methods.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Shape Tool
This resource will help students better understand polygons. The shape tool allows users to create and manipulate different types of polygons.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Volt Meter
As you put the different type of batteries on the volt meter pay attention to the voltage equations in the table. See how positive and negative numbers interact.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Diagonals to Quadrilaterals Ii
This resource explores the bisectors of quadrilaterals. The interactive tool allows learners to draw quadrilaterals with perpendicular bisectors, congruent perpendicular bisectors, and congruent bisectors.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Diagonals to Quadrilaterals I
This resource explores the diagonals of quadrilaterals. The interactive tool allows learners to examine intersecting line segments in a variety of ways. Topics discussed are perpendicular diagonals, congruent diagonals, and bisected...
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Nctm: Illuminations: Scale Factor
The interactive applet allows learners to explore the relationships between side length, area, and perimeter. Students see how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of areas and perimeters. [Requires Java.]
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Nctm: Illuminations: Proof Without Words Completing the Square
Students use this computer applet to visualize the concept of completing the square.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Mirror Tool
This interactive tool helps student visualize symmetry. The exploration provided by the site helps students explore reflective symmetry. [Requires Java.]
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Nctm: Illuminations: Circle Area
Explore what the relationship the radius has to the area of a circle. Click the instructions to learn how to use this interactive resource and select"Exploration" for more ideas.