26 April 1999 Vol. 4, No. 17
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
The Guide - Learner Online | MathStories.com |
Student Tessellations
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MATHSTORIES.COM
"House of Math Word Problems for Grades 1-5"
http://www.mathstories.com/
MathStories.com offers more than a thousand math word
problems, organized by grade and topic. Worksheets for
basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division), fractions, and decimals, with room for students
to show their work, may be printed out. Skills addressed
include estimating, measuring, and learning to tell time.
Math stories based on history and science are included, and
new pages are added regularly.
A page of "Key Words and Catch Phrases" for Word Problems
shows some ways simple words are used for basic operations,
and a link to "Magic with Numbers" leads to number tricks
("...try this trick on a friend. Say 'You may select any
number that you like. Then if you do as I say, I will tell
you the answer.'")
http://www.mathstories.com/fun_numb.htm
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STUDENT TESSELLATIONS
In February and March, students in Ohio and California
created tessellations inspired by Suzanne Alejandre's
Tessellation Tutorials:
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html
- Kenston Geometry Students Create Tessellations
http://www.kenston.k12.oh.us/khs/math/top4.html
Over 200 geometry students at Kenston High School in
Chagrin Falls, Ohio participated in a school tessellation
project; 21 of the tessellations were chosen for display
on the Web.
- Student Tessellations, Frisbie Middle School
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie.html
Tessellations by students in Suzanne Alejandre's Computer
Elective class at Frisbie Middle School are shown. The
students wrote poems to accompany their tessellations.
The Math Forum would be pleased to link to pages with your
students' math projects and mathematical artwork. Send us
the URL(s) and we'll show off your students' creations in
the Math Forum's Student Showcase:
http://mathforum.org/students/showcase/
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