Curated OER
Why Study Fractals?
Students explore the concept of fractals. In this fractals activity, students use the website to research where fractals occur in nature. Students research what fractals are and how fractals are used to solve real world problems.
Curated OER
"How Many Snails?" by Robert Wells
Young scholars represent algebraic patterns in various ways.
Curated OER
Distortion Unleashed
Students view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
Curated OER
Geo-Town
Second graders use a checklist to construct a Geo-Town map including a compass rose, a map key, and a paragraph about a walk around Geo-Town, using appropriate geometric and directional vocabulary to identify the two-dimensional figures...
Curated OER
Using the Variation Approach
Learners explore and explain geometrical applications, and how to apply these applications to real life.
Curated OER
3-D Beginning Graphs
Students explore the concept of big and small. They collect objects from the classroom, sort them by size, and create a graph using Duplo stacking blocks.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Completing the Whole Pictures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and then attempt practice problems on how to complete a whole picture with some missing parts.
Study Pad
Splash Learn: Compose Shapes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Place the shapes on the picture outline and collect coins for each correct answer.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Draw a Picture 1
Use the problem solving strategy, draw a picture, to identify the characteristics described in the correct picture. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Aplus Math: Geometry Hidden Picture (Non Java)
Uncover the hidden picture by correctly matching geometry terms to their corresponding diagrams. This fun interactive online game will have your students asking to practice their math!
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shape and Space in Geometry: I Took a Trip on a Train
Think through what you would view as you ride around this park on a train. You are given a topographical view of a park and asked to put the pictures in order of what you would see as you ride around the park.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Congruence of Triangles
Congruent means, "same size, same shape." Find out more about this concept at this test prep site with real world examples and pictures. Hands-on classroom activity and lots of practice. Knowledge of basic algebra and geometry concepts...
Starfall
Starfall: Puzzles
In this interactive students click on one of the black statues to break them down into shapes; then they reconstruct the statue by putting the puzzle pieces together, which shows the animal that it represents and replaces the statues...
Harvard University
Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
Other
Interactive Pattern Blocks
A colorful, engaging site where students can manipulate pattern blocks to create patterns or pictures. Included in the detailed directions are possible activities and a feature that allows you to email your patterns to a friend.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Forms of Ratios
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are given a picture of shapes and are to create the same picture by adjusting the size of the shapes on the grid. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Symmetry: Point, Line, Plane, Rotational
Investigate the concept of symmetry at this test prep site. See detailed definitions and picture examples, answer the questions in the interactive practice pages, and do the classroom activity where students use a digital camera to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Toilet Roll
Picture a roll of toilet paper; assume that the paper in the roll is very tightly rolled. Assuming that the paper in the roll is very thin, find a relationship between the thickness of the paper, the inner and outer radii of the roll,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Quilts
Young scholars will use a square to investigate other polygonal shapes that can be formed. Students will work with these polygons to make designs that will later constitute cooperatively designed quilts. The quilts will be made by...
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Juegos De Matematicas
Great elementary level math activities, organized by school grade. Activities are sometimes written in the form of teacher instructions, with pictures and examples. Others are written directly for students and can be done online or...