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Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
This applet allows students to practice plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. The learning resource consists of the activity, instructions, instructor notes, and additional resources.
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Shodor Interactivate: Comparison Estimator
This activity allows the user to compare to quantities by estimating. Students use three types of estimations: counting, length, and area. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Estimator
This activity allows the user to practice estimation skills. Students use three types of estimations: counting, length, and area. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Area Explorer
Students test their skills on how to calculate the area of a shape. Instructor notes are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Shape Explorer
Learners practice calculating the perimeter and area of a given figure. The interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Angles
The activity allows students to practice identifying different types of angles. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Interactive: Pythagorean Explorer
Students find the length of a side of a right triangle by using the Pythagorean Theorem and then check their answers.
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Shodor Interactivate: Squaring the Triangle
Students explore the relationship between the Pythagorean Theorem and right triangles. Teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer
Students explore the nature of triangles and their area. An applet and instructor resources are included. [Requires Java.]
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Shodor Interactivate: Marbles
Young scholars learn about sampling with and without replacement by simulating marbles being drawn out of a bag. Settings can be altered to explore conditional probability.
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Shodor Interactivate: Two Colors
Middle schoolers investigate conditional probability. This activity allows the user to simulate pulling red and green balls out of boxes. Teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot
Students learn about box-and-whisker plots. The interactive box plot allows the user to explore maximum, minimum, median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and outliers.
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Shodor Interactivate: Interactive: Scatter Plot
Use this interactive applet to input a series of (x, y) ordered pairs and plot them. Parameters such as minimum and maximum value, minimum and maximum y value, and x- and y-scale can be set by the user or determined by the applet.
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Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer
This applet gives you practice finding the area of a triangle. Great place for students to "discover" how you find the area of a triangle. Directions are just a click away. [Requires Java.]
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Lines, Rays, Line Segments, & Planes
This robust lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school grades introduces the concepts for lines, rays, line segments, and planes. Resources are linked to it and ready for your use.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: An Introduction to Quadrilaterals
Quadrilaterals-parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids-are thoroughly introduced in this lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school learners. Lots of resources are linked to it to help support the teacher and students....
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Shodor Interactivate: Identity Properties
The resource consists of a discussion between a mentor and two students about how to use additive and multiplicative identity and inverse properties. Examples and explanations of each are included.
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Shodor: Equilibrium
A presentation of the basics of chemical equilibrium, covering equilibrium expressions, Le Chatelier's principle, and sample calculations.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphs and Functions
This lesson plan is directed at introducing students to how to graph functions on the Cartesian coordinate plane. They will experience several categories of functions including lines and parabolas. Resources and interactive tools are...
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Finding Patterns in Fractals
Students will find patterns in fractals through this lesson plan and describe them mathematically. Students will use their prior knowledge of arithmetic with rational numbers in this lesson plan.
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Shodor Interactivate: Perimeter Explorer
Use this applet to find the perimeter of a variety of shapes with the same or different areas.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Perimeter
This lesson plan helps students explore the mathematical concept of perimeter. Resources are available to support teacher and students.
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Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Adding and Subtracting
Use this discussion, provided by Shodor, to reinforce your knowledge on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.