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Mrs. Cunard's
Math Websites
Computers, the Internet,and Hands-on Mathematics
Click on the Blue Links to
access the websites for your lessons.
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to this webpage.
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- The Bowling Game (Order of Operations)
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Operation Order
This tutorial has three levels—Easy, Medium, and Hard. The student,
shown 3 numbers and an equation, must type the correct number in the correct
place
to complete the equation.
- Using Tiles to Add and Subtract Fractions with Unlike Denominators
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Visual Fractions
On-line tutorial with instruction & practice in identifying, renaming, and
operating with fractions and mixed numbers. “Find Grampy” (with each
topic) is a fun tutorial—with explanations.
- More or Less (Game)
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Fraction Four
Pairs play a game against the clock to convert fractions to decimals
to percents.
- This Ratio Is Golden; Applications of
the Golden Ratio
Explore these three sites to discover fascinating examples of the
golden ratio in the real world:
• Golden
Section in Art and Architecture
• Fibonacci
Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music
• GoldenNumber.Net
- Pascal’s Triangle: Creating Designs
Using Factors, Multiples,
and Divisibility Rules
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Coloring
Multiples in Pascal’s Triangle
Activity to investigate number patterns in Pascal's Triangle created
by placement of multiples.
- The Mathematics of Magic Squares
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The Game of Fif
Akin to playing Tic-Tac-Toe on a Magic Square. Select three numbers
whose sum is 15—before your opponent can! See page 5 of “The Mathematics of
Magic Squares” for directions.
- Making a Quilt Square
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Quilting and Mathematics
Quilting designs are used to help students experience transformational
geometry.
- Tessellations and M. C. Escher
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Tessellate!
An activity to generate an irregular polygon that will repeat without
overlapping across a plane
- Discovering Scientific Notation; The Universe of Powers of
Ten
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Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
This tutorial may take a minute or two to fully download.
It begins by viewing the Milky Way at 10 million light
years from
Earth.
You then “move through
space” towards Earth in successive orders of magnitude
of 10. Both exponential notation and standard notation
are used with
each
picture.
- Prizes in a Cereal Box (Experimental & Theoretical
Probability)
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Simulating Probability Situations Using Box Numbers
Scroll down a bit to the first grid (below the Instructional Plan).
To set up the cereal box simulation for 6 possible prizes, click
on the
numbers 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 and 6 in the upper left-hand corner of the grid. (This tells
the computer to randomly select from 6 different prizes.)
To begin the simulation, press Start. As each prize number is selected,
it is graphed in the grid. You need to quickly click Pause to stop
the simulation as
soon as you have obtained all 6 prizes. The number of Draws it took
you to obtain all 6 prizes is shown.
- The Factor Game
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The Factor Game
This is an electronic version of The Factor Game. To
play with the numbers 1–100,
scroll down to the yellow game board and adjust the Game Type menu below the
game board to “100.”
- What Shape Is He in?; Tangrams, Fractions, and Area
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Developing Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems
with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles
This NCTM site utilizes electronic tangrams. To use the interactivity,
scroll down to the tangram pieces below the word Task. Click on the
picture you would
like to create. There are eight such pictures shown below the tangram
pieces in small grey boxes.
A grey outline of the picture will appear next to the tangram pieces.
Drag the tangram pieces onto the outline to fill it. You can rotate
a piece
by grabbing
a corner. You can flip a piece by
• For an electronic tangram interactivity
with music:
• For
an interactivity using the tangrams from Grandfather Tang’s
Story:
- Making and Analyzing Linear Graphs
• Fun and Sun Rent-A-Car
This activity explores linear functions in a real-world situation.
Enter your data from your worksheet into the table on the Web site.
Then click
Graph. The
four graphs will appear. Then answer the questions that follow.
- Mathionair/Subtangent.com
http://www.subtangent.com/maths/mathionaire.php
http://www.subtangent.com/maths/index.php
This site provides mathematical Investigations, Games
(including Who Wants to be a e? < >). and
more.
- 10 Ticks Math Game
http://www.10ticks.co.uk/games.asp#
- Shoder Education Foundation
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/#fun
- Math Drills.com
www.math-drills.com
(Has a LOT of worksheets with answer keys that can be printed out)
- Mr. Myers Math Mania
www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/math.html
(Has interactive practice quizzes that can be taken online)
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