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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Pascal's Triangle
In this lesson plan, students will participate in discussions and activities that will have them explore the number patterns and fractal properties of Pascal's Triangle.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: The Mandelbrot Set
In this lesson students will explore Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set. In the process they will learn about fractals and explore complex numbers and function iteration.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fractals and the Chaos Game
Use the "Fractals and Chaos Game" game as a follow up to previous work on geometric fractals. Included are related activities.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Impossible Graphs
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and a plotting-practice activity, examines impossible graphs.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Venn Diagrams
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and an interactive Venn diagram shape sorter, takes students through an examination of Venn diagrams.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Algorithm Discovery With Venn Diagrams
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and interactive resources, helps learners learn about algorithms using box plots and Venn diagrams.
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Shodor Interactivate: More or Less Estimator
Practice your estimation skills by comparing the number of objects shown, the length of a curve or the area of a shape to a given number. Your choices are "greater than" or "less than".
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Shodor Interactivate: Mixtures
This activity will help students develop their understanding of percents and proportional reasoning by solving mixture problems. Working with two piles of circles the student determines the number in each pile that will be colored. In...
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Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Quiz
This activity allows the student to practice simplifying, converting, and multiplying decimals, percentages, and fractions. There are 3 levels of difficulty and the time limit may be set from no limit to 60 seconds. Additional...
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Shodor Interactivate: Coloring Remainders in Pascal's Triangle
In this activity the student will identify number patterns formed in Pascal's triangle when coloring remainders.
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Shodor Interactivate: Coloring Multiples in Pascal's Triangle
In this activity, the student can visually identify number patterns in Pascal's triangle by coloring multiples of a given number.
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Shodor Interactivate: Clock Arithmetic
Students will explore modular arithmetic in this activity. The student will set a starting value and them move the "clock" forward a number of specified hours to see the resulting sum. Included are disucssion resources, additional...
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Shodor: Gas Laws
An excellent site for understanding and applying the ideal gas law. The combined and other variations of the ideal gas law are derived. There are sample application problems with an abbreviated method of solving the problems.
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Arithmetic and Geometric Sequence
This lesson plan offers an introduction to sequences. Through the use of computers, students are able to see what happens to the sequences when multipliers and add on values are changed.
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Shodor Interactivate: Bar Graph
A wonderful tool and learning experience using a bar grapher. This site contains an interactive bar grapher and much more! Follow the "What?" link to get to classroom resources such as problems and explorations.
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Shodor Interactivate: Algebra Quiz
Students are able to have an on line quiz where the score and time elapsed is recorded on various level of solving equation problems.
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Shodor Interactivate
The Shodor Education Foundation has as its mission: "To advance science and math education through the use of computational science, modeling and technology." At this site, Shodor's Project Interactivate offers Java-based activities for...
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Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Cartesian Coordinate System
This lesson plan contains a learning exercise for students to familiarize themselves with the Cartesian Coordinate System and its many uses in the world of mathematics. Contains links to explanations of terms and concepts associated with...
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Shodor Interactivate: Probability and Outcome Discussion
This site is a virtual discussion between a teacher and student about probability and outcome. The virtual teacher poses wonderful questions for the students to think about. The virtual students then respond to the inquiries.
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Shodor Interactivate: Clock Wise
The interactive resource explores how to tell time. Students are either asked to enter the time displayed on a clock or move the hands of a clock to display the given time.
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Shodor Interactivate: Maze Game
The interactive learning game has students practice their point plotting skills as they move through a mine field. The goal of the game is to get to a target location without crossing a mine.
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Shodor Interactivate: Ordered Simple Plot
The interactive learning activity allows students to plot multiple ordered pairs. Teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Spinner
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental and theoretical probabilities using a spinner. Teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Interactivate: Experimental Probability
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental probability using spinners and dice. Teacher resources are included.