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Use counting strategies to make as many outfits for Bobbie Bear as you can, using different colored shirts and pants.
Simulate the spread of a wildfire using a probability applet.
Investigate rational functions and the "Light It Up" game with this interactive tool.
Use this applet to plot a set of data and determine a line of best fit.
Explore the path made by Mars in relation to the Earth.
Explore the path made by Mars in relation to the Earth, when the ratio of their orbital radii is assumed to be 3:2, and when the ratio of their time to complete one revolution is assumed to be 2:1.
Estimate length and angle measure while guiding a turtle to a pond using computer commands.


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Explore an interactive demonstration of why (a + b)2 = a2 +2ab + b2.
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.
Investigate how changes in the base and height of a parallelogram affect its area.
Investigate how changes in the base and height of a trapezoid affect its area.
Investigate how changes in the base and height of a triangle affect its 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.
Compare the area of a circle to its radius.
Create a customized circle graph with your own data, or display a circle graph from an included set of data.
This tool allows you to investigate the relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle.
Use pieces of string to estimate the circumference of a circle.
Explore substitution ciphers by encoding and decoding text messages.
This applet will allow you to investigate savings account earnings, credit card debt, and a stock market simulation.
Compare two methods for computing pi.
Play a card-matching game with different representations of the same numbers.
Explore the conditions that guarantee uniqueness of a triangle, quadrilateral or pentagon, regardless of location or orientation.
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.
Divide a triangle, square, or trapezoid into smaller, less common shapes.
Students will recognize rotation symmetry in figures and examining various rotation symmetries.
Investigate the quadrilaterals formed by various arrangements of diagonals.
Investigate the types of quadrilaterals that can be formed when certain restrictions are placed on the diagonals.
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.
Construct a figure that illustrates the sum of the angles in a triangle, quadrilateral or pentagon.
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.
Practice counting and adding to 10 by thinking of numbers in relation to 5.
Simulate water exiting a tube through a hole in the bottom, and investigate the speed at which the water flows.
Play with shapes to understand an iterative process.
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.)
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.
Discover where the incenter of a triangle occurs.
What point within a regular hexagon has the property that the sum of the distances to the sides is minimum?
Create a customized histogram with your own data, or display a histogram from an included set of data.
Investigate the placement of a new medical center so it is mutually convenient to three cities.
Understand and investigate the area of the rectangle, parallelogram and triangle.
Understand and investigate lines, segments, and rays.
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.
Investigate the relationship between the area of an isosceles triangle and the length of its base.
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.
Create reflection symmetry with a mirror.
Explore mixture problems using colored circles from two different piles.
Play several different versions of Nim against the computer.
What point within a regular octagon has the property that the sum of the distances to the sides is minimum?
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. (This activity is a special version of the Pan Balance - Shapes applet. It uses numbers that are friendly for primary classrooms.)
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.
Investigate the resulting areas when two parallel segments are constructed through a point on the diagonal of a parallelogram.
Design a pattern using geometric shapes.
The point of intersection of chords, secants, and tangents allows for some interesting investigations. The Power of a Point tool allows for the exploration of various relationships that occur because of this point.
Use five number cards and arithmetic operations to create the "target" number in this fun math game.
Exercise your skill with factors and multiples.
Carry out an interactive, geometric "proof without words" for the algebraic technique of completing the square.
Watch a dynamic, geometric "proof without words" of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Explore the relationship between theoretical and experimental probabilities.
Explore sampling distributions by drawing multiple numbers many times.
Explore various robot arm constructions, using one, two or three arms that rotate (like a rotary motor) or slide (like a hydraulic lift).
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.
Explore a soccer's players angles when kicking a ball at the goal.
Examine an interesting result when circular cans are arranged in a rectangular container.
Sketch and quantify sound using two different representations.
Explore the dynamics of a sound wave, including pitch, tone, frequency, intensity and loudness.
Use the combined features of a spreadsheet and a graphing calculator.
Explore the graphs that result when two characteristics of a square (side length, diagonal length, perimeter, area) are plotted.
Explore a geometric interpretation of the Law of Cosines.
Use color-coding to represent state information, such as population, area, and gasoline usage.
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.
Solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle by moving all of the disks from one peg to another.
Classify triangles in the plane by their sides and their angles.
What point within an equilateral triangle, a square, or another regular polygon has the property that the sum of the distances to the sides is minimum?
Explore the amplitude, period, and phase shift of various trigonometric functions.
Explore the growth or decline of a trout population in a restocked pond.
Simulate the effect of viewing an image through a tube.
Determine the best path for a vehicle that can't go as fast when it travels off‑road.
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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