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- Bits and Bytes - Brian Metcalfe, Editor; Winnipeg School Division No. 1
A K-12 education newsletter distributed throughout Winnipeg School Division No. 1 since October 1984. Its focus is to provide educators with tips and techniques to help them integrate technology to enhance learning in their classrooms. The site includes
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- The California Math Show - Susan Addington; The Geometry Center
A portable, interactive math exhibit based on the idea of symmetry. Visitors are encouraged to sit down and do things: build symmetric polyhedra out of snap-together pieces, make symmetric patterns with pattern blocks, stencils, rubber stamps, computer
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- Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching - University of Plymouth
A focus for research and curriculum development in mathematics teaching and learning with the unifying aim of enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges. The site includes: The Mathematics Enhancement Programme; Resources: worksheets in HTML
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- coolmath.com: Cool Math - Karen
A searchable "amusement park of mathematics" for exploring math: functions, tessellations, polyhedra, limits, logs, fractals (with galleries), puzzles and problems, fun with numbers, how to succeed in math, careers in math. Also Cool Links for Math for
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- Crib Sheets - Parents Online
Guides to educational jargon, teaching methods, and "the strange things
children may bring back from school as homework." "Other crib sheets" for math, written for parents in the United Kingdom, offer explanations, examples, lesson plan sketches, and
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- Demiregular Tessellations - Totally Tessellated
Color renditions and a real example of a demiregular tessellation. Templates allow you to print renditions of each tessellation suitable for coloring activities.
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- The Four Types of Symmetry in the Plane - Susan Addington
Rotation, translation, reflection, and glide reflection, with illustrations and problems for consideration. Written by Dr. Susan Addington for the California Math Show; presented on the Web by Suzanne Alejandre as part of her Tessellation Tutorials.
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- Geometry in 2 and 3 dimensions - Susan Addington; Dept. of Mathematics, Cal. State-San Bernardino (CSUSB)
A course designed for prospective middle school math teachers. Middle school students need lots of concrete experiences to develop their geometric intuition, and can begin developing geometric reasoning abilities, so this course takes a hands-on approach.
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- Geometry Web Page - Ephraim Fithian; Kutztown University
Sixteen geometry activities: Tangrams; Golden Ratio; Geoboard; Polygons; Symmetry; Constructions; Polyominoes and Polyiamonds; Star Polygons; Special Points in Polygons; Polygon Tessellations; Kaleidoscope Tessellations; Escher Tessellations; Space Cubes;
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- Highland Tessellations - Karen M. Stagge, Highland Middle School, Libertyville, IL
Tessellations A La Escher: an introductory unit based on MECC's Tesselmania! software and the graphics of M.C. Escher, to help students realize the importance of mathematics in the art world. Also links to work done by students at other schools.
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- Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations - Jill Britton
Thirty activities from a variety of Web sites, coordinated with a forthcoming book by Jill Britton for Cuisenaire/Dale Seymour, Exploring Pattern: Symmetry and Tessellations (March 1999). Topics include an introduction to symmetry; symmetry in the alphabet,
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- Investigating Tessellations Using Activity Pattern Blocks - Suzanne Alejandre
A lesson plan with activities for investigating tessellations with pattern blocks, keyed to the NCTM Standards, and student tessellation samples. Links to a Patterns Program in which you can drag an unlimited number of standard pattern block shapes into
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- jennifer.jasensky.com - Jennifer Jasensky
Teaching tessellations: Pictures and mathematical classifications of wallpaper and frieze patterns from Granada, Sevilla, and Almeria, Spain. The site includes helpful links and lesson plans, plus worksheet/transparency masters.
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- Lesson Plans for the Geometer's Sketchpad - Institute for Technology in Mathematics, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
Action Geometry for UCSMP chapters 1, 3, 4, 4.3; Review of GeoLab; Three-dimensional Sketching; Animated Triangle Inequality; Script Tools; Review of Geometer's Sketchpad Version 3.0; A Centroid; Archaeology Problem; Fixed Area of a Triangle; Pythagorean
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- Math 5337: Technology in the Geometry Classroom -
Sullivan, Burgiel, Osinga; The Geometry Center, Univ. of Minnesota
From the University of Minnesota's course in Computational Methods in Elementary Geometry, materials developed at the Geometry Center for teaching pre- and
in-service teachers of high-school geometry interested in using technology in their classrooms.
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- Mathematics of Ornaments and Architecture - Hermine Smikle - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
An enrichment unit in basic geometry and symmetry, including translation, tessellation and reflection, ideas on line designs and knot designs for teaching lines and line segments, and ideas for daisy designs to teach the use of a pair of compasses. The
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- Maze Design - Adrian Fisher
What's new in the maze world? The latest maze news, plus general maze information: Tessellations & Tiling Patterns; 1998 Dragon Maize Mazes; World's Best Mazes for families to visit; World Maze Database (all the mazes on Earth, country by country);
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- Murderous Maths - Kjartan Poskitt et al.
Contents, descriptions of characters, updates, and "extra bits" for the books Murderous Maths; The Essential Arithmetricks; Desperate Measures; Do You Feel Lucky?; Vicious Circles and other Savage Shapes; The Phantom X; The Fiendish Angletron; The GCSE
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- Patterns, Patterns, Everywhere - Nina Heal
Three lesson plans: an internet-based research project on patterns; connections between the arts of M. C. Escher and quilters; and a technology-enriched tessellations lesson. Includes a teacher resource page with rubrics.
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- Polaroid Geometry Scavenger Hunt - Math Forum
This activity presented by Ruth Carver at the Math Forum's 1996 Summer Institute, "Constructing Mathematics on the Internet," displays pictures of items found on this a hunt for a list of geometric items (tessellations, symmetry, concentric circles, shapes,
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- Project Interactivate - Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Interactive middle school lessons on number and operations, geometry and measurement, functions and algebra, and probability and statistics. They feature: online activities (illustrative Java applets including: Venn diagrams; clock arithmetic; Pythagorean
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- Rich Problem Solving Contexts - Oklahoma State University
Curricular materials and related resources for the investigation of the symmetries and classification of mandalas, border patterns and Escher style tessellations. Also, students' geometry projects; reading connections (children's literature with mathematical
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- Semiregular Tessellations - Totally Tessellated
Color renditions and real examples of the semiregular tessellations. Templates allow you to print renditions of each tessellation suitable for coloring activities.
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- Tessellation Methods Using MS Paint - Diana Hunter
Lessons and examples in creating tessellations using MS Paint include step-by-step instructions on the translation method, glide method, rotation method, mid-point rotation, and right triangles. Hunter also provides suggestions for making better tessellations,
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- Tessellation Project - Diane Coates
A lesson plan to teach students about tessellations - patterns made up of one or more shapes, completely covering a surface without any gaps or overlaps.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Tessellation Tutorials - Suzanne Alejandre
A series of tutorials that teach students how to tessellate (somewhat in the style of the art of M.C. Escher) using HyperCard for black and white and/or HyperStudio for color, ClarisWorks, LogoWriter, templates, or simple straightedge and compass. The
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- T 'n' T: Tessellations and Telecommunications - Brian Metcalfe, Winnipeg School Division No. 1
Tessellation activities include Teaching 'n' Technique, which provides strategies, techniques, and an illustrated step-by-step procedure for creating computer-created tessellations, whether using a "paint" program or HyperStudio.
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- Topology and Geometry Software: Fun and Games - Jeff Weeks
Fun math toys for all ages, from the author of Exploring the Shape of Space (grades 6-10) and The Shape of Space (grades 12-16). Applets and software for various platforms. Play with tic-tac-toe, mazes, and the like, on a torus or Klein bottle. Draw
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- Transformations and Tessellations - Lynda Kozicz Leahey
A unit introducing the concepts of transformations and tessellations. Students will explore the attributes of transformations: reflections, translations, rotations and dilations by using pattern blocks, algebraic notation and computer design. They will
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