E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Position and Directions
Meet Calypso the fish and go to the underwater world to learn more about position on maps.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Position on a Map
Help Gina locate items in the tea store using coordinates, a compass, and a ruler in this series of leveled exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Space
Join Otto at the Phantasia construction site. Will you help him build a new playground?
McGill University
Ear Cutting for Simple Polygons: Introduction
This site gives the definitions for various polygon-related material.
Chateau Meddybemps
Spatial Concepts
Explore spatial concepts with these activities. Use them to aid in-class discussions about spatial sense or as group or partner activities.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Visualizing
Is seeing believing? Explore visualizing and spatial reasoning with three dimensional shapes in this challenge from the NCTM Math Challenge for Families collection. Discover why visualization is essential skill in real world situations.
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Identifying Traits
Investigate the relationship between shapes and identifying traits or characteristics. A concise lesson that explores physical, chemical, and observable traits in the shapes around us. Build on this knowledge by playing the Web Colors...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Visit Tessellation Town on Tile Island!
Go to Tessellation Town on Tile Island and create a variety of tessellations.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Geometry and the Geoboard
This site is a lesson plan for using a geoboard in a sixth grade geometry class. The lesson serves as an introduction to the geoboard and its uses in geometry. Some topics the lesson covers include helping to visualize shapes and and...
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Matemagicas
Find out the magic of mathematics. On this site you will find magic tricks, games, animated optical illusions, paradoxes and a lot more.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Square Laminas
Solve this square lamina problem using your visualization skills and other mathematical prolem solving strategies.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Pentominoes
A "one star" geometry problem that requires problems solving skills and exercises ones visual-spatial abilities. One may want to cut out the pieces to solve the problem as a puzzle.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Hollow Cube
A "one star" geometry problem that requires problems solving skills and exercises ones visual-spatial abilities.
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PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Shaded Area
A "one star" geometry problem that requires problems solving skills and exercises ones visual-spatial abilities.
Other
Ohio Resource Center: Shadows
This applet helps pupils visualize the shapes of shadows cast by a cube with a light coming from different angles. This helps students visualize shapes from different angles and to identify, sketch and classify the cross-sections of...
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Ilusiones Opticas
In Spanish. Have fun with the different pictures and their optical illusions.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Sandy Math Shapes
Build the castles that the waves have crashed down by putting shapes in the right spot. Games focuses on geometry and spatial sense.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Seedball
Learning game provides an introduction to grids and plotting points on a grid. Find the secret pieces and help Tumbleweed get his seeds to his car by making a path.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning Quiz
This quiz consists of ten multiple-choice questions that focus on area, perimeter, ordered pairs, and angles. At the end of the quiz, a summary of the results is shown, and students may review missed questions.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Puzzling Cube
See if you can figure out which symbols are on which cube face at this one page website. The solution is just a click away once you have your solution in mind.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Cubed
Use the shapes provided and figure out how they fit together to make a 3 X 3 cube at this one page website. The solution is readily available right at the website.