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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Pick a Card, Any Card

For Students 3rd - 5th
No matter what your favorite card game is, we all wish we could use psychic powers to draw the card we want on our turn. You may not have psychic powers, but you might have the power of probability on your side. Do this experiment and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Play Doh Math

For Students 3rd - 5th
One piece of Play-Doh can make many different shapes. Even though you can change the shape by squishing or stretching the Play-Doh, it is still the same size unless you add or take away some of the dough. Try this experiment to test how...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Juice Box Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Juice boxes are so convenient, just poke the straw in and sip away. It might surprise you how much thought goes into the design and manufacturing of a juice box. Each manufacturer has carefully calculated how big each side should be to...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: M&m Math

For Students 3rd - 8th
By using a simple bag of M&Ms, you can conduct an experiment in statistics to determine the frequency of colors in the package. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: M&m Geometry

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Geometry is the study of how to use math to describe and investigate different points, lines and shapes. The way that a shape is described in geometry is with a formula, which is simply a mathematical way to calculate different...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Making Patterns With Rubik's Cube

For Students 9th - 10th
This project challenges you to figure out how to make geometric patterns with Rubik's Cube. Leaving your cube in one of these positions makes it much more tempting to pick it up and 'fix' it. See if you can determine how different...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Devising an Algorithm for Solving Rubik's Cube

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're the kind of person who has taken apart your Rubik's cube in order to grease the inside parts so it will move more smoothly, this could be a great project for you. This will show you three sets of move sequences that accomplish...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Gigantic Triangles: Measuring Altitude (Inclinometer)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
If you've ever wondered how tall that bridge is, or how high your kite was, then this could be a good project for you. You'll learn how you can use the mathematics of right triangles to measure the height of an object with two...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Tiling With Spidrons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If art and math are both passions of yours, this project is meant for you! Spidrons are geometric forms made from alternating sequences of equilateral and isosceles (30 degrees, 30 degrees, 120 degrees) triangles. Spidrons were...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Effects of Card Counting on a Simple Card Game

For Students 9th - 10th
If you enjoy playing cards, this project will get you thinking about strategy in card games and help you become a better card player. Explore probability using computer simulations and the practice of counting cards.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Do Baseball Stadium Dimensions Affect Batting Statistics?

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a fun project that combines baseball and math. Major League baseball is played in ballparks that have their own individual quirks when it comes to the exact layout of the field. Fenway Park in Boston has the famous "Green Monster"...
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Elements, Compounds, Substances and Mixtures

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about the classification of matter based on whether the chemical composition is pure or a mixture. Understand the definitions of elements, compounds, substances, and mixtures, and what the differences are between them. Five types...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

U. Of Toronto: Does the Number E Have Real Physical Meaning?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains why the number e does have meaning outside of its purely mathematical applications. Gives an example of this using compound interest. Also explains the number e as a limit and its role in calculus.
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Other

Eurographics: European Association for Computer Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home site of an international organization purely devoted to the needs of professionals in computer graphics, and includes membership, event and publication information.
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University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Lewis Carroll: Symbolic Logic

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of a book "discussing the area of mathematics which studies the purely formal properties of strings of symbols." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Robert Millikan

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Andrews Millikan was a prominent American physicist who made lasting contributions to both pure science and science education. He is particularly well known for his highly accurate determination of the charge of an electron via...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Oxidation Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will use the oxidation number rules to determine the oxidation number of an atom of any element in a pure substance. They...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stay in Shape

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will learn that math is important in navigation and engineering. Ancient land and sea navigators started with the most basic of navigation equations (Speed x Time = Distance). Today, navigational satellites use...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Element, Mixture, Compound

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This hands-on activity will help the students have a better understanding of different types of materials as pure substances and mixtures and distinguishes the homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures by discussing some material they use...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Electrolysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Copper can be extracted from its ore by heating it with carbon. Impure copper is purified by electrolysis in which the anode is impure copper, the cathode is pure copper and the electrolyte is copper sulfate solution. It provides links...
Article
New York Times

New York Times: An in Depth History of Group F.64

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is based on a book by Mary Street Alinder, who had worked with Anselm Adams. Group f.64 was a group of photographers in the 1930s who advocated for a pure style of photography.
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: See if a Ring Is Pure Gold

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...
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Other

Pure texan.com: Texas Horned Lizard

For Students 9th - 10th
Named the Texas state reptile in 1992, this horned toad is really a lizard. You can read all about it here, including its names, types, habitat, and efforts to ensure its survival as a species.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Kant

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online course from MIT.

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