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Nctm: Illuminations: Deep Sea Duel
This strategy game requires you to select cards with a specified sum before your opponent.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Canada Data Map
Information can be represented in many ways, and this application allows the user to represent data about the provinces and territories using colors.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Graph Creator
Use this vertex-edge tool to create graphs and explore them. Investigate ideas such as planar graphs, complete graphs, minimum-cost spanning trees, and Euler and Hamiltonian paths.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Chairs
This application is used to explore the number of chairs needed when tables are rearranged in a restaurant.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Triangle Inequality
This activity illustrates the Triangle Inequality and the conditions necessary for a triangle to be formed from three straight lines.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Histogram Tool
This tool can be used to create a histogram for analyzing the distribution of a data set using data that you enter or using pre-loaded data that you select.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Fraction and Percent Tool
This tool allows you to explore fractions, decimals and percents by creating fractions with denominators up to 100.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Name Letters
Crack the code and can determine the cost of your name. Use this activity to practice solving systems of equations.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Pythagorean Review
Review and explore the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Geogebra: Dynagraphs
Explore relationships between inputs and outputs by manipulating interactive double number lines.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Composing Transformations
Compose equivalent transformations in two different ways.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Pi Fight
Become comfortable with using both radians and degrees.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Handshakes
When the nine justices of the Supreme Court meet, they greet one another with a handshake to show harmony of purpose, even though their views may differ. How many handshakes occur? In general, how many handshakes occur when there are n...
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Nctm: Illuminations: Visualizing Transformations
Choose a transformation and apply it to a shape to observe the resulting image.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Composing Reflections
Examine the result of reflecting a shape successively through two different lines.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Proof Without Words: Pythagorean Theorem
This applet proves the Pythagorean Theorem "without words" using geometry.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Scale Factor
Use this applet to investigate how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of perimeters and the ratio of areas between two figures.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Shape Sorter
Use this applet to sort shapes according to their properties using Venn diagrams.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Simson Line
This applet allows for the construction and exploration of the Simson Line.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Interactive Calculus Tool
Investigate graphs of polynomial functions, tangent lines, derivatives, and area under a curve with this interactive applet.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Circumcircle
This applet allows for the construction and exploration of a circumcircle.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Limits
In this activity, you can see a representation of several geometric series and their limits.