Volume 9, Number 13

29 March 2004 Vol. 9, No. 13 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Tess Contest | NOVA: Hunt for the Supertwister Cabri Project: Academic Site TESS CONTEST http://www.peda.com/tess/contest.html Pedagoguery Software Inc.'s third tessellation contest ends Wednesday, March 31, 2004. The winners will be announced April 4, 2004. Grand prize is US$100, a set of die-cast polyhedra models, a site license and an individual license for Tess. According to the website, "There are fewer than a dozen contestants so far, so the chances of winning are excellent!" View past contest results: http://www.peda.com/tess/2002/ http://www.peda.com/tess/2003/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- NOVA: HUNT FOR THE SUPERTWISTER http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tornado/ Articles, interviews, and resources to go with the program "Hunt for the Supertwister," which airs on PBS stations Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 8:00 pm. Inquiry & Article - Tornado Country - Forecasting Then and Now Interview & Interactive - Shelter From the Storm - Rate Tornado Damage Resources - TV Program Description - Check Local Listings - Live Chat on March 31 at 11:00 am ET - Links & Books - Teacher's Guide - Program Transcript NOVA site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CABRI PROJECT: ACADEMIC SITE http://www.cabri.net/cabri/index-e.html Cabri-geometry is a tool for Euclidean, transformation, and analytic geometry. Simple Animations http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabri/a-propos/exemples-e.html - Constructing a Triangle - Drawing the Altitudes - The Perpendicular Bisectors - Defining a Macro - Drawing Loci - Drawing Functions Cabri Java Project http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabrijava/ - Animations - Optical - Electricity - Mechanical - 3D - Geometry - Loci - Conics French version of the site http://www.cabri.net/cabri/index.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 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/ Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/ 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 Donations http://deptapp.drexel.edu/ia/GOL/giftsonline1_MF.asp Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \