Volume 7, Number 18

6 May 2002 Vol. 7, No. 18 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS A Mathematical Description of Circles - Schwarze The Game of Chaos - Giesen | Tessellation Station - Nestlerode A (MATHEMATICAL) DESCRIPTION OF CIRCLES - Monika Schwarze http://www.schulnetz-hamm.de/beisenkamp/projekte/uonline02/galerie_e.htm Students of Monika Schwarze at the Beisenkamp-Gymnasium in Hamm, Germany, wrote a Web site to display a project from their mathematics class. Working in pairs, students chose everyday objects containing circles, drew them with paper and pencil, and then determined the equations of the circles. Some of the objects chosen were designs in church walls and windows, the logo of the Olympic Games, and the pattern in a tiled street. The results from the different groups can also be viewed in a PowerPoint presentation: http://www.schulnetz-hamm.de/beisenkamp/projekte/uonline02/praesentation.htm Schwarze invites other students to share similar explorations of real-world objects that feature circles. Available in German, French, and English. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- THE GAME OF CHAOS - Juergen Giesen http://www.jgiesen.de/ChaosSpiel/ChaosEnglish.html This applet plays the chaos game at varying speeds. How will the points be distributed in the triangle? Since throwing the dice is random, must the points be scattered "chaotically?" Also available in German: http://www.jgiesen.de/contents.htm -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- TESSELLATION STATION - Kathleen Nestlerode http://www.sjy.org/6thGrade/Mrs.%20N/tessellation_station.htm Visit Kathleen Nestlerode's sixth grade Tessellation Station for: - Activities - Objectives - Standards - Resources - Tessellation Student Work http://www.sjy.org/6thGrade/6studentwork.htm \|/ STUDENT TESSELLATIONS http://mathforum.org/alejandre/students.tess.html Share your students' tessellation web pages by sending their URLs to Suzanne Alejandre, suzanne@mathforum.org -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum 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/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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