Cyberchase Airlines Builder Game - Drag (and sometime
rotate) segments to make a spaceship. A spaceship must be an enclosed
shape. Fixed perimeter. Find the shapes.
Measure in
inches - Click New Problem.
Drag the ruler to measure.Type your answer and hit Enter. Repeat.
(no recording sheet)* Measure
in centimeters - Click Measure. Click New Problem.
Drag the ruler to measure.Type your answer and hit Enter. Repeat (no
recording sheet).
Make
a Match - Equivalent fractions, including shaded regions. Has
six levels! (Cyberchase Games)
ClockTime
- Match Clocks – Answer questions asking you to show a given
time on digital and analog clocks. Time
- What Time Will It Be? – Answer
questions asking you to indicate what time it will be before
or after a given time period. (Virtual Manipulative)
Broken
Calculator Problem solving. The dimmed buttons on the calculator
are broken (they don't work!). Your goal is to use the buttons that
do work to compute the numbers from 1 through 15.
Spinners -
Can make various spinners with equal or unequal regions. Spin once
or multiple times. Results table provided. Activity available at spinner
game. (Virtual Manipulative)
Money Three
activities: (a) How much money, (b) Pay Exact Amount, (c) Make a Dollar.
(Virtual Manipulative)
Platonic
Solids - Investigate the solids (cube, tetrahedron,
...). Rotate the shape. Shift-click the
edges, vertices, and the faces to color (and count them). V - E +
F = ?
(Virtual Manipulative)
Fraction
Model II (and I and III).
Models fractions and mixed numbers with set, area, and length models
(NCTM Illuminations).
Create a Graph Tool -
for students (others) to make statistical graphs (NCES).
Forest
Fire applet - simulation of a forest fire. Visualize probabilities
(Project Interactivate).
Percent
of a number Fill in any two of the three numbers in _% of __
is __. (Virtual Manipulative)
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