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Texas Instruments: Parallelograms: Discovering Their Properties
Students use the TI-89 with CABRI Geometry to discover properties of parallelograms. They will construct a figure and use the definition to discover the figure is a parallelogram.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Constructionary
The activity is designed to help learners create constructions using Geometer?s Sketchpad. The geometry tutorial consists of definitions and pictures of mathematics terms.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You've Got Triangles!
Students learn about trigonometry, geometry and measurements while participating in a hands-on interaction with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT technology. First they review fundamental geometrical and trigonometric concepts. Then, they estimate the...
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Molecular Movies: 3 D Tutorials for Biologists
A collection of visualization-oriented tutorials for creating 3D animations for use in your biology classroom. Search by difficulty level, software package, or 3D topic area.
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Carpentry
Carpenters use applications of geometry in their work, including the properties of right triangles and circles. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to make measurements and solve problems based on carpentry situations....
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Texas Instruments: Real Life, Real World Activity Architecture
Architects and Interior Designers use scale drawings that represent the house or room they are designing. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to create a scale drawing with dilations.
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Avalanche Rescue
When hikers and skiers go into terrain with a risk of avalanches, they take safety equipment including avalanche rescue beacons. An avalanche rescue beacon sends and receives electromagnetic field signals that travel in circular...
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Air Traffic Control
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are...
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Forestry
Forest industry professionals make measurements in their work using tools including the Clinometer and the Biltmore Stick. These tools are based on the concepts of similar triangles and trigonometric ratios in a right triangle. This...
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Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Surveyor
Surveyors describe land parcels with distance and angle measurements, often given as compass headings. Once the boundaries of the land parcel are described, the surveyor can calculate the area of the land. This activity uses Cabri Jr....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Archive of Cabri Resources
This Math Forum site is a page that is linked to Cabri sites. Cabri is a geometry software package. The sites include lesson plans, lessons, and more.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Mathematical Models With Applications
In this lesson, students use geometry software to create a two-point perspective drawing.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Reflections, Rotations, and Translations
This task uses GeoGebra software, which can be freely downloaded, to explore what happens to the line segments and angles of a triangle when it is reflected, rotated, and translated. Includes printable task sheet for students and a...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Volume of a Cube
"The volume of a cube can be developed by considering unit cubes, a single row (longs) of unit cubes or a single layer (flats) of cubes using this applet." This easy software makes it possible to easily construct a cube and take it...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Introducing Pi!"
The overriding purpose of the lesson is to actively engage students in learning activities that promote opportunities for students to discover the 'meaning' of pi. Activities will include research, hands-on, software applications,...
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Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Geometer's Sketch Pad: An Introductory Lesson
This site is a five part tutorial to get started using Geometer's Sketch Pad. The tutorial goes through things such as setting up to install GSP, the tool box, other functions, graphing,and more.
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Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
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Gobierno De Navarra: Puntos Y Rectas Notables De Un Triangle
Learn how to construct the bisectors, median and altitude of a triangle.
Other
Ctte: Geometer's Sketch Pad Activities
This site offers numerous activities for middle school and high school learners to explore using Geometer's Sketch Pad.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robot Wheels!
Students solidify their understanding of the terms "circumference" and "rotation" through the use of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics components. They measure the circumference of robot wheels to determine how far the robot can travel during...
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Texas Instruments: Cottage Water Problem
Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to solve a geometry problem. They move the vertex point that is common to two right triangles along the base to find the smallest possible sum of the length of the hypotenuse.
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Texas Instruments: Angle Theorem
Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to investigate the relationship between angle and ratio in a right triangle.
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Texas Instruments: Match the Graph
Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to reflect points from a graph across the axes.