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Science Buddies - Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation Science Buddies supports hands-on scientific investigations by providing free science fair project ideas, answers, and tools to teachers, parents, and students. Programs focus on involving science and technology professionals to interact directly and ...more>> Scientist Cards - All Too Flat Trading cards, humorously based on Topps and Fleer baseball cards, list the writing preference, dominant cortex, university, and key contributions of Richard Feynman, James Clerk Maxwell, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, Leonhard Euler, ...more>> The SET Home Page - Magliery, Weeks A page "dedicated to the entertaining and highly addictive game of SET." The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features: color, symbol, number ...more>> ShapeGame - Architectronics, Inc. Drag shapes on, drag shapes off: triangles, squares, hexagons, rhombuses, and trapezoids. Also, change their color, orientations, and more. ...more>> ShillerMath: How Kids Learn Math - Larry Shiller A home-schooling math kit, designed to be kid- and parent-friendly. Details of the curriculum and free sample activities are available on the site, as well as a parent resource center, newsletter, chat area, and more. ...more>> Shockwave Montessori Arithmetic Games - Our-Montessori Materials designed to accompany a Montessori program, suitable for any student. A link to download Shockwave Player is included. Contents: Stamp Game - use with children ages 4-7 for addition and subtraction; Large Bead Frame - extends basic addition ...more>> Similarity (SMILE) - Natalia Kee, Harlan Community Academy High School A lesson designed to teach students to discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and relate this factor to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept ...more>> Simplifying Equations of the Form ax+b=cx+d (SMILE) - William F. Wagner, Hyde Park Career Academy A lesson designed to teach students to solve equations of the form ax+b=cx+d; and to visualize the concept of "balancing" an equation. From the Algebra and Trigonometry section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics ...more>> The Sine Function (SMILE) - Ronald G. Sienkiewicz, Prosser Vocational High School A lesson designed to familiarize students with the concept of the sine function by defining, graphing, computer generating, using a "shop created" blackboard sine wave generator, and by presenting examples of natural phenomena which result in sine wave ...more>> Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives - Jim Franklin These manipulatives feature movable, interchangeable slides for learning how to round whole numbers, decimals, and money; to identify equivalent fractions; to calculate elapsed time, and more. Manufactured in the U.S. of recycled plastic with steel reinforcement, ...more>> Soap Film Models (SMILE) - Joan Pintozzi, Curie Metro. High School A lesson designed to encourage students to conjecture, introducing the concept of minimum path and minimum surface area and practicing measurement of line segments and angles. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single ...more>> The Solar System (SMILE) - Fred J. Schaal, Lane Tech High School A lesson designed to make use of concentric circles and angles in excess of 180 degrees to construct a sketch of the naked-eye-visible planets of the Solar System (polar coordinates). From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost ...more>> Solving Rubik's Cube - David Lee Winston Miller A "best-fast" Arity Prolog program and demonstration of an efficient heuristic search method to solve Rubik's Cube. Examine the cube's topography (its flat layout) and "submachines." Documentation includes "Understanding the problem," "Why this approach ...more>> Solving the Rubik's Cube - Matthew Monroe Instructions, popularized by Minh Thai, the National Champion cube solver, for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Also, instructions for how to solve a cube when it has oriented pictures on each face. Directions for solving a 2x2x2 Rubik's mini cube, the professor ...more>> Solving Word Problems (SMILE) - Barbara Trotter, O. A. Thorp Scholastic Academy A lesson for intermediate and upper grades designed to teach students several different techniques for solving word problems. From the Practical and Applied Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics ...more>> The Soma Cube Puzzle - Modvix Purchase the Soma Cube. Piet Hein, a Danish poet and inventor, visualized the set of all irregular shapes formed by no more than 4 cubes, each of the same size, and realized that the seven simplest irregular combinations of cubes can form a larger Soma ...more>> Some Solid (Three-dimensional) Geometrical Facts about the Golden Section - Ron Knott Phi and three-dimensional geometry - Dice Shapes; Coordinates and other statistics of the 5 Platonic Solids; The Greeks and the platonic solids; Quasicrystals and Phi; Footnotes on Plato and Euclid, and on shapes for fair dice. ...more>> Sommer Cube - Michael Sommer The faces of the modular Sommer Cube (S3) feed into twisted conduits that comprise a three-dimensional, tunnelling maze. The website provides example arrangements and construction questions such as "Given that a ball must exit at the lowest S3 level and ...more>> Sorting and Analyzing (SMILE) - Vickie Townsend, Crown Fine Arts Community Academy A K-12 lesson designed to teach students to sort, compare, and analyze through exploring, observing, and examining concrete objects, and to recognize a bar graph. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons ...more>> Sorting Pennies, A Wagering Activity for Algebra 1 (SMILE) - David Drymiller, Marie Sklodowska Curie Metro High School A lesson designed to abstract the idea of a line; introduce other methods of solving simultaneous equations besides graphing; and to develop problem solving skills. From the Algebra and Trigonometry section of a collection of almost 200 single concept ...more>> Sorting Through Life! (SMILE) - Barbette Flennoy, Joseph Stockton School A Kindergarten lesson designed to teach students how to sort objects by recognizing their attributes and, if possible, relate them to life. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics ...more>> South African Puzzle Club - sapuzzleclub.co.za "Refining the Art of Puzzling," this club serves as an online center for "like-minded people together with a passion for puzzles.... [to] grow the hobby of metagrobology in South Africa." With web forums, articles, galleries of mechanical puzzles, and ...more>> SpaceBric Tetrahedral linking blocks and design software using that shape. Download trial versions of the software or get the fully-featured versions with a registration key. Blocks may be purchased on line as well. SpaceBric also offers school fundraising and ...more>> Statistics of Mars (candy) (SMILE) - Wilhelm L. Lilly, Kenwood Academy A lesson for designed to use a realistic situation as a means of collecting data (on M&Ms or other candy); to teach students to group, display, and interpret information by sorting and arranging data to construct frequency graphs; and to display and interpret ...more>> The Statistics of M&Ms (SMILE) - Charlotte Goldwater, Kenwood Academy A lesson for grades 1-12 designed to teach students to analyze the contents of a bag of M&Ms mathematically. From the Graphs and Visuals section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning ...more>> subtangent.com - Duncan Keith With Flash, explore interactive investigations such as Number Stairs and Diagonal Differences. Play Mathionaire, based on the popular TV game, but with maths questions. Quizzes include Function Machines, Number Properties, Pythagoras, and Quadratics 1. ...more>> SuccessMaker mathematics courses - Pearson Education, Inc. A learning environment combining a management system, assessment, and curriculum resources to provide administrators, teachers, and students with tools to improve academic performance. Also available from http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZk99. ...more>> The Surface Area of a Cylinder (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Academy A lesson designed to teach students to relate the areas of one rectangle and two circles to the total surface area of a cylinder; relate the circumference of a circle to the base of the rectangular section of a cylinder; and to review the area of a circle. ...more>> The Surface Area of a Cylinder (Version 2.0) (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Academy A grade 8 group activity that uses a phenomenological approach, teaching students to apply concepts to a problem-solving situation. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics ...more>> Symmetry - Rick Engel A lesson on the symmetry of the Platonic and Archimedean solids using Polymorf, a math manipulative product. Demonstrates inscription, truncation, sectioning, and space filling with polyhedra. ...more>> Tangram Page - S. T. Han All about tangrams, an ancient Oriental toy that has 7 pieces: 5 triangles in different sizes, 1 square, and 1 parallelogram. The object of the game is to form a given shape using all 7 pieces. Introduction, Puzzle of the Month, PC/Mac Software, Articles ...more>> Tangrams: History, Puzzles, Make It, and Links - Randy Crawford Follow the "history" link to learn about tangrams through the ages; click on "puzzles" for over 100 silhouettes to reconstruct, with solutions. "Make it" provides instructions for building your own tangram set. With references to more sites, software, ...more>> Tangrams - Tom Scavo Tangrams, a puzzle that helps develop spatial-visualization skills, may also be used to introduce or reinforce geometric concepts such as congruence, similarity, symmetry, etc. This unit for grades 4 through 6 uses tangrams to compute the area of polygons  ...more>> A Taste for M&Ms - Ivars Peterson (MathLand) The package of M&M's chocolate candies (plain) I had just opened contained 56 colorful, little oblate spheroids. It was obvious from a quick glance that certain colors were more common than others in this sample of M&M's. I counted up each color ...more>> Teaching mathematical thinking through origami - Daniel Meyer, Cornell University; Jeanine Meyer, Pace University A paper that offers general and specific strategies for using activities based on origami to invoke mathematical thinking. With background on origami, including its development and critical aspects of practice in the United States; how origami can relate ...more>> Team Umizoomi - Viacom International Inc. Milli, Geo, and Bot solve everyday math problems with their "Umifriend" preschoolers. Get Mighty Math crafts, games, printables, and recipes. Download episodes of this animated live-action series broadcast on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. television show. ...more>> Telling Time in Different Time Zone (SMILE) - Borita Khim, Stockton Elementary School A lesson for grade 4 designed to teach students to tell time in different time zones. From the "Miscellaneous" section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement. ...more>> Temperature (SMILE) - Patricia A. Calloway, Spencer Math and Science Academy A lesson designed to teach students to read temperature on a Celsius thermometer; and to read and interpret bar graphs. From the Practical and Applied Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative ...more>> Terrapin Software - Terrapin Software Terrapin Logo sells Logo products and other educational software and Logo materials, such as Mission Control, Crystal Rain Forest, and Roamer World. Take a quick lesson in Logo programming; learn about robotics powered by Logo, such as Universal Robotics ...more>> Tessellated Polyhedra - Jill Britton Full-page printable nets of each of the regular polyhedra, decorated with individual surface tessellations in full color. A higher-resolution black-and-white version of each tessellated net appears in Polyhedra Pastimes, by Jill Britton, published by ...more>> Tessellation - Roger Carthew Sets of foam shapes for use in making tessellations. Site includes purchasing information, description of shapes and colors provided, and example tessellations. ...more>> Tessellations: An Application Of Simple Regular Polygons (SMILE) - Mary Racky, Kenwood School A lesson designed to develop basic skills making and identifying homogeneous tessellations, both regular and semiregular. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative ...more>> Tessellations - Robert Fathauer A company that makes Puzzellations, Colorful Connectables, and Perpetual Patterns puzzles, plus a variety of other products inspired in part by the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, but also by mathematicians such as Roger Penrose and Benoit Mandelbrot. ...more>> Tetrakys Interlooping equilateral, isosceles, and scalene triangles for building two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, exploring area and volume, and visualizing fractions and arithmetic operations. The foam composition of these colorful manipulatives ...more>> Thinking Fountain Shape Cluster - Science Museum of Minnesota Activities, images, and experiments relating science, math, and language arts. The shapes and math cluster features shape walk, I C shapes (finding circles, squares, and triangles in everyday objects), soap bubble geometry, pyramids and cubes (building ...more>> Time (SMILE) - Gracie Davenport, Spalding School A lesson designed to teach physically Handicapped (EMH) students to tell time using a number chart; to demonstrate their ability to tell time by using a clock; and to use this skill to follow a daily schedule. From the Practical and Applied Math section ...more>> Times Table Triangle - Brenda Batten, White Birch Educational Tools An interactive, visual math manipulative that helps students memorize multiplication tables. The student inserts a pencil through the hole that corresponds with a multiplier, then turns the Triangle over to find the answer. ...more>> Title III MSS Final Performance Report - Dana Lee Ling Dana Lee Ling is a mathematics and science software specialist at the College of Micronesia-FSM. Articles document the College's attempts to increase the success of pre-algebra and algebra students through "conceptual" and technology-based approaches. ...more>> To Classify Beans And Peas (SMILE) - Gwendolyn Williams, Adam Clayton Powell School A lesson designed to teach students to identify five different kinds of beans and three different kinds of peas, to record information on a bar graph, and to interpret the information given. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost ...more>> Tomoko Fuse Origami Quilts - Jeff Kerwood These origami quilts were designed and made by Jeff Kerwood, using the modules developed by Tomoko Fuse, a Japanese origami artist universally acknowledged as the master of modular or unit origami. In modular origami, the model is built up from multiple ...more>>

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