Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Patterns in Counting
Students' learn to count in multiples of numbers using concrete objects and a calculator. They also connect number symbols to quantities, and look for patterns in the number symbols.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Expanding Binomial Expressions With Symbolic Math Guide App
Students will try to determine a pattern for expanding binomials by using the expand command. Students will then make a conjecture about the expansion of a more complex pair of binomials. Students will then use SMG to take a closer look...
NSTATE
State Symbols of Kentucky
Learn about Kentucky's state symbols and their official state places and events. In most cases you can click on the word to see a picture and find more information about the symbol, place, or event.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration
Join the celebration by creating paper butterflies that will migrate to their counterparts in Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries send them north in the spring.
Other
Kentucky State Symbols
Discover all of the Kentucky state symbols here, including a picture and the year of adoption.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The First Twelve Days of School
Students learn to organize data, look for patterns, and solve problems. They will count the number of "coins" in a variation of The Twelve Days of Christmas song. They will also generalize the patterns through symbolic expressions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Number and Operations
In this activity, students use the calculator to represent decimals, and to recognize patterns in the number symbols.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Words That Describe Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Translate a verbal expression into an algebraic equation or inequality.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Bats Triangular
In this activity, students use manipulatives to construct a pyramid. The manipulative pyramid then becomes the basis students use to construct a pictorial representation of a pyramid. The TI-10 is used to show symbolic representation of...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Do It Yourself Patchwork Gifts
Students will sharpen their geometry skills when they make these holiday gifts. This site offers hands-on activities with geometry skills interwoven.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Byzantium
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, view an excellent online exhibit of artwork created during the Middle Byzantine period from 843 to 1261. Religious influences during this time were the inspiration for art, and this exhibit provides a...
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
Music Theory
Music theory.net
An online beginning music theory and ear training site. This site is for students to use at home to reinforce what they learn in class.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Weather
The New York Times Learning Network has developed interactive and printable crossword puzzles. The theme of this one is weather.
Smithsonian Institution
The Fabric of Moroccan Life Find the Design
The designs found in Moroccan weaving and textiles often come from things of everyday life or from basic geometric shapes. Given on this site are seven examples of common designs for you to explore and enjoy.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Quadratic Transformer
The Quadratic Transformer was developed to support the learning of quadratic functions, and in particular to help you understand the connections between symbolic and graphic representations. Indirectly, it also helps you connect either...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator System: Be the Point
This lesson introduces students to Activity Center, the coordinate plane, and the use of symbolic rules to represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns. Students can use Activity Center to model and interpret relationships...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Rhythmic Experiences [Pdf]
In this lesson. students will learn that musical symbols have numerical values as they divide beats and meters, perform and create rhythm patterns, and practice operations with fractions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Decoding Anglo Saxon Art
In Anglo-Saxon art there is always more than meets the eye. The dense animal patterns that cover many Anglo-Saxon objects are not just pretty decoration; they have multi-layered symbolic meanings and tell stories. View examples of their...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Phonics Guide
Papa Jan: What Is Phonics?
How can you define phonics? Take this opportunity to learn a little more about phonics and its relationship to letters and sounds.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Origins of Rock Art in Africa
Personal ornamentation and engraved designs are the earliest evidence of art in Africa and are inextricably tied up with the development of human cognition. View pictures and read about prehistoric art in Africa.