Sites (20)
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3D Shape Cutouts
Print, cut out and construct these prisms.
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3D Shape Match
This interactive memory game is fun, educational and addicting! Students are asked to match twelve sets of shapes on cards.
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Alphabet Geometry
Learn about transformations using the alphabet.
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Archimedes' Laboratory
This geometric puzzle site is designed for open-minded people with a fair amount of curiosity and humility.
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Bathroom Tiles
While Pythagoras has a bath, work out some translations.
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BBC: Bite Size Maths
Online revision activities for various strands in upper primary Maths.
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Crystallographic Polyhedra
Collection of unusual polyhedra that may be manipulated.
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Digital Blocks
Create a 3D design using this learning object that uses similar principles to Logo to manipulate shapes.
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Geoboard Isometric
Use this online Geoboard to illustrate three-dimensional shapes.
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Geometry - Three Dimensional Shapes
Video clips are abbreviated from a weekly hour-long show broadcast on an interactive cable television network in Chicago. Each clip is 4-7 minutes and designed to simplify math concepts for students o
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Geometry Interactives
Large collection of interactive sites containing Geometry applets.
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Hyperspace Structures
A hypercube is a 4 dimensional analogue of the cube. Details of the construction of this object are given, along with movies of a spinning hypercube.
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Interactive Geometry
Explores principles of geometry for more advanced primary students.
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Isometric Drawing Tool
Draw 3D shapes online with this isometric tool.
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Mathworld: Live 3D Applets
Collection of complex moveable 3D shapes.
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Pattern Blocks
Use six common geometric shapes to build patterns and solve problems.
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Platonic Solids
Identify characteristics of the Platonic Solids.
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Platonic Solids - Duals
Identify the duals of the platonic solids.
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Space Blocks
Create and discover patterns using three dimensional blocks.
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The Platonic Solids
Click on any of the figures of this page and bring up a new window in which you can rotate the polyhedron and so get a better feeling for its shape.
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Lessons (17)
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3-D Drawing and Geometry
These activities on 3-D topics are best understood when done sequentially, but you may explore them in any order that interests you.
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A Tribute to Miró
Students use basic lines such as horizontal, vertical and curved, combined with basic geometric and natural shapes, to create an original work.
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Building the Icosahedron
An icosahedron is a geometric solid consisting of twenty faces. Each face is an equilateral triangle and every vertex of the icosahedron is formed by five triangular faces that come together.
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Crystals
Students studying polyhedra enjoy seeing the structures as they occur in the real world. Crystalline structures can be categorized into seven crystal systems.
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EggMath
This is the EggMath version 1.5, a collection of web modules (including many interactive applets) covering different topics in mathematics related to eggs; it is intended for use in K-12 classrooms.
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Folding Polyhedra Nets
Seven nets to cut out and construct.
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Geometry Building Blocks
Explanations of properties of 3D shapes.
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Geometry in Art and Architecture
This unit focuses on the use of geometric concepts in creating works of art.
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Geometry Interactive
introduces geometric reasoning as a method for problem solving and explore the properties of geometric figures and make constructions using pencil and paper and dynamic software.
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Geometry Worksheets
Solids, Prisms, Cylinders.
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Origami Now
Online instructional videos demonstrating how to create numerous origami projects.
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Plane Math
A place to learn cool things about math and aeronautics.
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Polyhedra in the Classroom
This unit works well if the class can regularly go to a computer lab with Internet access and/or if the classroom has computers with Internet access.
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Soma Cube Central
Students review the concepts of solid geometry, then try to determine all of the ways that they can join no more than four cubes at their faces.
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Surface Area and Volume
Manipulate dimensions of polyhedra, and watch how the surface area and volume change. Parameters: Type of polyhedron, length, width and height.
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The Geometry of Bicycle Designs
Bike designs in Geometry.
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Year 5 Math Unit Plans
Units of work that include interactive applets, lesson plans and teaching notes.
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