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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.
Simulate the spread of a wildfire using a probability applet.
Use this applet to plot a set of data and determine a line of best fit.
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.
Investigate affine recurrence relations of the form

A(n) = b × A(n – 1) + c,   A(0) = a.

Investigate affine recurrence relations with a pre‑loaded spreadsheet.
Explore commutativity and associativity within a geometric situation.
Explore the sum of the interior angle measures for various polygons.
Investigate how changes in the base and height of trapezoids, parallelograms, and triangles affect their area.
Create a customized bar graph with your own data, or display a bar graph from an included set of data.
Create a customized box plot with your own data, or display a box plot of an included set of data.
Use color coding to represent data about the Canadian provinces and territories, including population, land area, and gas usage.
Explore the number of chairs needed when tables are arranged in a restaurant.
Create a customized circle graph with your own data, or display a circle graph from an included set of data.
Compare the circumference and area of a circle to its radius and diameter.
Explore substitution ciphers by encoding and decoding text messages.
Compare two methods for computing pi.
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.
Examine various two-dimensional figures to determine which ones can be folded into a cube.
Determine the volume of a box by filling it with cubes, rows of cubes, or layers of cubes.
Students will recognize rotation symmetry in figures and examining various rotation symmetries.
Play a strategy game that requires you to select cards with a specified sum before your opponent.
Students will recognize dihedral symmetry and reflections in figures and examining various symmetries.
Investigate the relationship between your height above the Earth and the distance you can see to the horizon.
Explore an abacus model for representing numbers and performing addition.
Create equivalent fractions by dividing and shading squares or circles, and match each fractions to its location on the number line.
Play an interactive game that exercises your factoring ability. Test your skills against a human or the computer.
Divide numbers into two factors, and build arrays to represent each factorization.
Explore iteration and patterns in shapes and numbers with fractals.
Explore relationships among fractions while playing this interactive game.
Explore different representations for fractions. (In this version, the numerator is restricted to values from 0 to 20, and the denominator is limited to benchmark values of 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 20.)
Explore different representations for fractions. (In this version, the numerator and denominator can both take values up to 20.)
Explore different representations for fractions. (In this version, the numerator and denominator can take values up to 100.)
Use this applet to explore fractions using the context of a bicycle and gear ratios.
Experiment with the seven classes of Frieze patterns and explore the transformations that constitute each of the seven categories.
Manipulate various geometric solids. Color the solid to investigate properties such as the number of faces, edges, and vertices.
Draw and manipulate vertex-edge graphs.
Create a customized histogram with your own data, or display a histogram from an included set of data.
Understand and investigate the area of the rectangle, parallelogram and triangle.
Create dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. Draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes, and then shift, rotate, color, decompose, or view them in 2‑D or 3‑D.
Explore visual representations of geometric and harmonic series.
Investigate a regression line and determine the effects of adding points to a scatterplot.
Investigate the mean, median, and box-and-whisker plot for sets of data that you create.
Explore mixture problems using colored circles from two different piles.
Investigate the concept of equivalence by "weighing" numeric and algebraic expressions.
Find equivalent numerical expressions using a balance scale.
Explore relationships among the weights of various objects by placing them on either side of a balance scale.
Shoot a pool ball so that it continually bounces off the sides of a pool table at a 45° angle until it lands in a corner.
Design a pattern using geometric shapes.
Use five number cards and arithmetic operations to create the "target" number in this fun math game.
Exercise your skill with factors and multiples.
Watch a dynamic, geometric "proof without words" of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Explore the relationship between theoretical and experimental probabilities.
A common misconception is that when the dimensions of an object are doubled, the area is doubled, too. But this is not true! Use this applet to investigate how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of perimeters and the ratio of areas between two figures.
Draw and cut shapes, then use slides, turns, and flips to move the cut pieces around.
Sort shapes according to their properties using Venn diagrams.
Draw, color, paste, slice, rotate, reflect, expand, and contract various shapes.
Sketch and quantify sound using two different representations.
Use color-coding to represent state information, such as population, area, and gasoline usage.
Create patterns to cover the screen using regular polygons.
Practice multiplying single-digit numbers with this interactive multiplication table.
Solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle by moving all of the disks from one peg to another.
Adjust the magnitude and direction of a velocity vector to "drive" a car.
Adjust the magnitude and direction of a velocity vector and a wind vector to "fly" a plane.
Use the voltage of batteries to explore positive and negative numbers.

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