22 November 1999 Vol. 4, No. 47
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Symmetry Around the World | Basketball Explorations |
Mirek's Cellebration
SYMMETRY AROUND THE WORLD
Students of 6B, St Kieran's Manly Vale, Sydney, Australia
Project Leader: Adrian Bruce
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/stkierans-manly/Classes/Yr6/6B/Symmetry/
A collection of Web pages to help children around the world
find out about line symmetry and rotational symmetry.
Illustrations include examples from nature, the human body,
masks, reflections in water, architecture, geometric shapes,
hubcaps, kaleidoscopes, capital letters, advertising logos,
and more.
The class hopes to receive as many e-mail messages about
its work as possible from around the world (deadline:
December 20, 1999), and will plot the locations of senders
on a map on the classroom wall. Send e-mail to:
kieran@infoflex.com.au
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BASKETBALL EXPLORATIONS - ThinkQuest 1997
http://library.advanced.org/12006/
Basketball is a game that involves many disciplines,
including math, physics, art, and others. This site educates
the user about how these disciplines relate to basketball
in a way that presents important concepts and ideas but still
manages to be fun.
Resources (math explorations, lessons, and other goodies)
include:
- Reflections
- More on Reflections
- Parabolas
- Volume of Spheres
- Surface Area of Spheres
- Introduction to Statistics
- Areas of 2-Dimensional Figures
- Introduction to Vectors
- Vector Addition and Trigonometry
- Logos
- Color Theory
... and more
http://library.advanced.org/12006/resources.shtml
Navigate the site via a search engine, an index of all
available resources, or a roadmap that gives you a full
tour of the site.
When browsing a ThinkQuest entry, keep in mind the
ThinkQuest disclaimer:
http://www.thinkquest.org/disclaimer.shtml
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MIREK'S CELLEBRATION: 1D AND 2D CELLULAR AUTOMATA EXPLORER
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/
A site devoted to cellular automata. The Game of Life, one
of the oldest and best-explored cellular automata, is only
the tip of a large cellular iceberg: the number of even
simple cellular automata is estimated to be larger then the
number of particles in the Universe.
Mirek Wojtowicz explores a bit of this huge world, developing
his own cellular automata simulator, MCell (available for
download from the site), and collecting games, rules, and
patterns, many displayed on his pages. The site includes a
pattern of the week, libraries of CA patterns, and links to
other cellular automata programs.
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/ca_links.html
The above U.S. site mirrors Wojtowicz's original European
site in Poland:
http://www.mirwoj.opus.chelm.pl/
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For more links to sites about cellular automata, see the
Math Forum's Internet Mathematics Library: Math Topics:
Dynamical Systems: Cellular Automata:
http://mathforum.org/library/topics/cellular_auto/
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