Illuminations: Activities

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Use counting strategies to make as many outfits for Bobbie Bear as you can, using different colored shirts and pants.
Create customized activity sheets for your classroom! Nets of 3‑D shapes, tessellations, coordinate graphs, and more — all based on your input.
Estimate length and angle measure while guiding a turtle to a pond using computer commands.


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Create a spinner and examine the experimental and theoretical outcomes for a specified number of spins.
Create a customized bar graph with your own data, or display a bar graph from an included set of data.
Create a customized circle graph with your own data, or display a circle graph from an included set of data.
Play a matching game with different representations of equivalent items — match quantities to their numerals, shapes to their names, or fractions to decimals and percents.
Explore an abacus model for representing numbers and performing addition.
Practice counting and adding to 10, using frames to think of numbers in relation to 5.
Manipulate various geometric solids. Color the solid to investigate properties such as the number of faces, edges, and vertices.
Explore addition and subtraction relationships with Okta.
Explore relationships among the weights of various objects by placing them on either side of a balance scale.
Design a pattern using geometric shapes.
Use five number cards and arithmetic operations to create the "target" number in this fun math game.
Draw and cut shapes, then use slides, turns, and flips to move the cut pieces around.
Draw, color, paste, slice, rotate, reflect, expand, and contract various shapes.
Practice counting and adding to 20, using frames to think of numbers in relation to 10.
Practice multiplying single-digit numbers with this interactive multiplication table.
Use the voltage of batteries to explore positive and negative numbers.

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