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.
University of California
University of California: Geometry in Action
This page collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real-world applications.
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.
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: Mystic Rose
Solve the problem of how many lines make up a mystic rose.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science and the Brain
Describe the "mush-brain" effect, and test blindfolded subjects for their ability to identify items by smell. Explore the effect of biofeedback to help overcome illnesses, and attempt the mind-over-body techniques of visualizing and...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: The Outsiders
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and highlight characterization in blue, visualization in red, and symbolism in green.
TES Global
Blendspace: Visualization and Other Reading Strategies
A ten-part learning module with links to images, videos, and texts about reading strategies.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Learning to Chunk" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Roald Dahl's "Learning to Chunk." Details that show characterization are blue while details that appeal to visualization or the senses are red and questions...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Wag Worms
Use this challenge to see how many unique shapes can be created using exactly 5 cubes. At this one page website you can also check your results.
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Cubes Cut Into Four Pieces
This one page website offers an excellent challenge involving a cube. Can you visualize it? Check out the solution right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: All in the Mind
You will have to use visualization to help you solve this challenge. At this one page website, you will be able to check your solution.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Roll These Dice
Sharpen your problem solving, sequencing, and spatial reasoning skills playing this interactive game, Roll The Dice. See how many different paths you can take to end up with the same result.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Tessellating Triangles
The challenge at this one page website, involves tessellation and triangle. Should you accept this challenge, you will find helpful teacher notes and the solution available right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Egyptian Rope
See how many different regular polygons you can make using the 12 knot Egyptian rope at this one page website. Check your solution right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Green Cube, Yellow Cube
Think about the surface area of a cube. At this one page website, you use that information to complete the challenge. Solutions are offered right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Dicey
If you can visualize a cube and turn it around in your mind, then this is the challenge for you. This one page website has the solution available to check your thinking.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Envelopes
Explore tessellations with real world applications in this activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Figure out what shape you would use to create a legal envelope from a single sheet of paper. Then discover how...