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Curated OER
The Mandelbrot Set
Learners explore the concept of Mandelbrot sets and Julia sets. In this Mandelbrot and Julia set lesson, students use a function integrator applet to investigate two-variable function iterations. Learners use Julia set and Mandelbrot set...
Curated OER
The Mandelbrot Set
Students are introduced to the notion of a complex number and function iteration in order to motivate the discussion of Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set.
Alabama Learning Exchange
As If Numbers Weren't Complex Enough Already!
The class explores the concept of complex numbers on a website to generate their own Mandelbrot sets. They will practice performing operations with complex numbers and then to get a visual understanding, graph the absolute value of a...
Curated OER
The Mandelbrot Set
Pupils explore the Mandelbrot Set. They are introduced to the concept of a complex number and function in order to motivate the discussion of Julia and Mandelbrot sets. Students investigate fractals and how they are built.
Curated OER
Complex Analysis: Complex Variables
In this complex variable worksheet, students use functional iteration to find the fixed points of a function. This two-page worksheet explains the functional iteration, the Julia Set and the Mandelbrot set. Four problems are included.
Curated OER
Fractals Lesson Plan
High schoolers create fractals. In this lesson plan, students use a computer program to explore different types of fractals.
Curated OER
Two-Variable Function Pump Exploration Questions
Guiding students through two variable (complex) functions, this worksheet helps them perform complex arithmetic on 6 expressions. They iterate several functions with given starting points, determining whether each is a prisoner, escapee,...
NOAA
To Explore Strange New Worlds
It's time to boldly go where your class has not gone before! The introductory lesson in a five-part series takes young oceanographers aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos to begin a study of ocean exploration. The lesson includes a comparison of...
Yummy Math
A Cardioid for Valentine’s Day
It's Valentine's Day in geometry class! Celebrate the day of love with a heart-themed activity in which young mathematicians create a cardioid on polar graph paper.
Curated OER
Complex Numbers
High schoolers examine complex numbers. In this Algebra II lesson, students investigate two programs that involve complex numbers: the MANDELER Program and SYNDIV program.
Curated OER
The Fractal Coast
Students investigate measuring as it relates to the real world. In this geometry activity, students measure distances as they discuss fractals and how it relates to measuring. They measure both linear and non-linear distances.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: The Mandelbrot Set
In this lesson plan students will explore Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set. In the process they will learn about fractals and explore complex numbers and function iteration.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: The Mandelbrot Set
Explore fractals by investigating the relationships between the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Key Curriculum Press Algebra: Project the Mandelbrot Set
Students will choose a small region on the boundary of the Mandelbrot Set and create a graph of that smaller region.
Boston University
Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set Ii
This web site addresses counting and adding in fractal operations, as well as the role of the Fibonacci sequence in fractal geometry.
Boston University
Bu: Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set
This site progresses in iterations through Mandelbrot and Julia sets to explain fractals and the mathematics behind them.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: A Sense of Scale
Students can use this interactive tool to explore a Mandelbrot set of fractals. As they increase magnification up to 250,000,000 times, they keep returning to an image similar to the one they started with.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Fractals
Explore this course in fractals and dimensions including topics of The Sierpinski Gasket, The Mandelbrot Set, fractals in nature and technology, and fractals in 3-dimensional space.
Other
Julia Sets, Complex Deterministic Fractals
Here's an example of "What a 2 Dimensional Julia Set will look like using modern computers with their sophisticated graphical displays." Gaston Julia published his theories long before computers and as the site's author remarks, "What a...
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Fractals
A simple explanation of fractals is presented, along with several diagrams including the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Exploring Fractals
Although fractal images can be intriguingly complex, fractals are more than just pretty pictures. In this project, you'll explore the mathematical properties of the famous Mandelbrot and Julia sets. You'll learn about how these images...
University of California
Geometry Junkyard
An interesting junkyard of geometry findings where people are free to add their own findings and sift through others' interesting additions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Two Variable Function Pump
Enter two complex numbers (z and c) as ordered pairs of real numbers, then click a button to iterate step by step. The iterates are graphed in the x-y plane and printed out in table form.
Other
University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...