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Shodor Interactivate: Function Revolution
This activity allows the user to find the volume and surface area of various functions as they are rotated around axes. This applet can be used to practice finding integrals using the disk and washer methods of calculating volume.
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Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game
Investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of randomly generated points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
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Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game
Investigate the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of a randomly generated point, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
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Shodor Interactivate: Venn Diagram Shape Sorter
Sort colored shapes into a Venn diagram based on various characteristics.
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Shodor Interactivate: Triple Venn Diagram Shape Sorter
Sort colored shapes into a three circle Venn Diagram.
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Shodor Interactivate: The Mandelbrot Set
Explore fractals by investigating the relationships between the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets.
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Shodor Interactivate: Squaring the Triangle
Learn about how the Pythagorean Theorem works through investigating the standard geometric proof.
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Shodor Interactivate: Possible or Not
Review the properties of functions by looking at ten different curves and deciding whether or not they meet the criteria for a graph of a function.
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Shodor Interactivate: Cross Section Flyer
Explore cross sections of different geometric solids: cone, double cone, cylinder, pyramid, and prism. Manipulate the cross section with slider bars, and see how the graphical representation changes.
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Shodor Interactivate: Spread of Disease
Models how a population of susceptible, infected, and recovered people is affected by a disease.
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Shodor Interactivate: Pythagorean Explorer
Calculate the length of one side of an automatically generated right triangle by using the Pythagorean Theorem, and then check your answers.
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Shodor Interactivate: Number Base Clocks
Visually explore counting and place value with different number bases, from base 2 to base 16, and up to the hundreds place using a clock like interface. The activity also allows you to look at the numbers on the clock in base 10 or in...
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Shodor Interactivate: Slope Slider
This activity allows the user to explore the relationship between slope and intercept in the Cartesian coordinate system.
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Shodor Interactivate: Sequencer
Learn about number patterns in sequences and recursions by specifying a starting number, multiplier, and add-on. The numbers in the sequence are displayed on a graph, and they are also listed below the graph.
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Shodor Interactivate: Order of Operations Quiz
This activity allows the user to practice order of operations with addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents, and parentheses.
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Shodor Interactivate: Life
Run the classic game of life, learning about probabilities, chaos and simulation. This activity allows the user to run a randomly generated world or test out various patterns.
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Shodor Interactivate: Flake Maker
Create your own fractals by drawing a "line deformation rule" and stepping through the generation of a geometric fractal.
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Shodor Interactivate: Single Fraction Pointer
Determine the value of a given fraction represented as a point on a number line. Then find a fraction whose value is the given fraction using an arrow on the number line as a guide.
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Shodor Interactivate: Directable Fire!!
Run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos.
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Shodor Interactivate: Polar Coordinates
This activity allows the user to explore the polar coordinate system. The applet is similar to GraphIt, but instead allows users to explore the representation of a function in the polar coordinate system.
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Shodor Interactivate: Data Flyer
Enter a set of data points, then derive a function to fit those points. Manipulate the function on a coordinate plane using slider bars. Learn how each constant and coefficient affects the resulting graph.
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Shodor Interactivate: Overlapping Gaussians
In this applet you can adjust the parameters on two Gaussian curves to determine if there is a possibility of a difference between the two means.
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Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
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Shodor Interactivate: Floor Tiles
Build a "floor tile" by dragging the corners of a quadrilateral. Learn about tessellation of quadrilateral figures when the shape you built is tiled over an area.