Volume 10, Number 51

December 19 2005 Vol. 10, No. 51 THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS HyperGami and JavaGami | The Science Explorer Coin Flip for Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday ************************************************************** T^3 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE * February 24-26 2006 * Denver CO Come to the Mile High City and experience what K-College math and science teachers say is the best conference to attend. Whether it's your first year in the classroom or you're a seasoned veteran using TI technologies, you'll have a tough time choosing from the 400+ sessions. http://education.ti.com/us/t3denver ************************************************************** HYPERGAMI AND JAVAGAMI http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/projects/hypergami/ HyperGami and JavaGami, created by Ann and Mike Eisenberg, are software environments for designing and building paper sculpture. Choose from a number of starting polyhedra, which appear in a 3D window alongside a corresponding "folding net" in a 2D window. Employ both built-in features and the embedded programming language to customize the polyhedron, stretching or shrinking the polyhedron along its axes, truncating it at vertices, or adding pyramidal caps to faces. After the user customizes the new shape, the software attempts to generate a folding net for it, and offers a variety of paint tools to decorate the folding net. Links to resources include: - Polyhedral Playground Polyhedron Alphabet Book Pirate Finger Puppet Wireframe Polyhedra Paint and Print the Platonic Solids - Sculpture Gallery Polyhedra Polyhedral Sculpture Work by Kids Beyond Paper Automata - Publications, Research, and Grants - Download the Software Windows, Mac (OS X), Mac (OS 9) - Software FAQs -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- THE SCIENCE EXPLORER http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/ The Exploratorium offers a variety of Science Explorer activities from their books of family experiments. Each illustrated web page displaying the activity includes the sections: - What Do I Need? - What Do I Do? - Wow! I Didn't Know That! - What's Going On? -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- COIN FLIP FOR BEN FRANKLIN'S 300TH BIRTHDAY http://www.fi.edu/flip/index.html The Franklin Institute Online invites students around the world to help commemorate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday on January 17, 2006, by participating in a common scientific enterprise. Links on the page include: - Practice Worksheet (in PDF format) - Results of Student Trials - Links to other educational resources about coins and probability View more information about the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: http://www.benfranklin300.org/ \|/ ASK DR. MATH The Math Forum's Ask Dr. Math service has helped many students understand the mathematics of probability: FAQ: Introduction to Probability http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prob.intro.html FAQ: Probability in the Real World http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prob.world.html Selected Answers: Coin Flipping http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_coin_tossing.html Selected Answers: Odds vs. Probability http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_odds.html Middle School Archive: Probability http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/mid_probability.html High School Archive: Probability http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_probability.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum @ Drexel http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/kb/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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