Volume 9, Number 25

21 June 2004 Vol. 9, No. 25 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS New Student Tessellations | Arizona Mathematical Software 2004 Bridges Conference NEW STUDENT TESSELLATIONS MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL TOTOWA, NEW JERSEY http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/hosted/vargas/ Memorial Middle School's Math 7 Class of 2004 completed a tessellation project using the Math Forum's Tessellation Tutorial instructions. All seventh graders in Ms. Vargas's classes were taken to the computer room once a week for a total of five weeks to create a tessellation in the shape of an animal, an object, or a person. Once their tessellations were completed, students wrote a poem about their tessellation in Ms. Loeffler's class. The best work was selected for display on the website. Students drew inspiration from a trip to the Bronx Zoo organized by Ms. Jacobs, dissections in in life science class with Ms. Emerick, and Earth Day studies with Ms. Sposato. \|/ TESSELLATION TUTORIALS http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html A series of tutorials that teaches students how to tessellate (somewhat in the style of the art of M.C. Escher). -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- ARIZONA MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE http://math.arizona.edu/~www_main_2002/software/ This is a collection of approximately 60 educational programs that are designed for use by instructors and students in classroom, laboratory, and home environments. Software falls into four categories: - Are You Ready? The purpose of this series is to make available to students computer programs which review those materials from prerequisite courses that are essential for success in the present course. - Slide Shows A collection of screen images, primarily graphical, which anyone can view. - Teacher Aids These were written primarily as aids for middle and high school teachers, although many are of interest at the college level. They are subdivided into three groups of programs, namely, Interactive Demos, Logical Games and Puzzles, and Simulations. - Toolkits These interactive exploratory tools are aids for instructors and students, both in and out of the classroom. All have drop-down menus and are self-documenting, with on-line, context sensitive help. They are of use from Beginning Algebra to Fourier Series. The software runs on MS-DOS based computers with 640k of memory and CGA or better graphics hardware. Macintosh versions of the "Are You Ready for Calculus?" software are also available. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 2004 BRIDGES CONFERENCE http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/ The Seventh Annual International Conference of Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science will be held July 30 - August 1, 2004, at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. There is a registration fee of $50.00 for each day or $130.00 for the entire conference plus $30.00 for each copy of the Bridges Proceedings. For information about location, accommodations, registration, and paper guidelines, visit the web site. - Bridges in Pictures http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/pic.html shows previous conference exhibits and participants - Virtual Museum http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/Museum.html provides a sampling of the visual arts produced by past and future participants of the Bridges Conference - Resource Center http://www.sckans.edu/~bridges/education.html offers a selection of participants' educational web sites on fractal tilings, origami, sliceforms, and more -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 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://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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