National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids
The instructional tool explores various geometric solids and their properties. Student can manipulate and color the different shapes. Learners examine the edges, faces, and vertices of the different solid figures.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ye Ole Angles and More
Young scholars will explore shapes and their attributes through a variety of resources including web sites, story books and manipulatives. Students will create a presentation of a shape adventure.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Tan Ii
The Chinese character mark for Tan II (pronounced she-tow-bah) is the second of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This instructional activity incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Discovering Algebra: Changing the Shape of a Graph
Students will learn how to stretch or shrink a graph vertically.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Get Your Numbers in Shape
Students produce a sequence, explore patterns and find a linear or quadratic equation for a given pattern. They use inductive reasoning to make conjectures about patterns. Students also find the Y-value of a function if the X-value is...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Making Sense of Shapes and Sizes
In this activity, students develop algorithms for generating and generalizing patterns related to triangle and square geometric models.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Want My Half
In this lesson, the children will identify parts of a whole using modeling clay, participate in an interactive web lesson, participate in an interactive web game, and construct a fraction poster. The activities are used as instructional...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Give Me a Hand or Leaf Me Alone
In this activity, students' find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Haircutting
For this lesson, students will learn to incorporate elements and principles of hair design to enhance facial shapes. The students will be able to relate hairstyles and facial structures to provide optimal hair designs for males and females.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Area
In this activity, students learn to calculate the area of geometric shapes. They solve real world problems involving area.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Coordinate Plane
In this activity, students use the pen feature of the calculator to draw geometric shapes in a coordinate plane.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Archeologist Frieze Patterns
Archeologists, when classifying artifacts, often take note of the physical properties or attributes of artifacts, such as the materials from which the artifacts are made, and their size, shape, function, and decoration. Friezes are often...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Simulation of Sampling Distributions
This set contains questions about simulating sampling distributions. Students see graphs of simulated distributions enabling them to reach conclusions about mean, shape, and standard deviation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Explorer Draw App
Students use this App to draw two-dimensional shapes and representations of three-dimensional cubes. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Over time, volcanoes all over the world have caused the earth to change. Using various activities, research, and dynamic media, students will discover what causes volcanoes to erupt. They will learn different volcanic shapes and how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hair Design (Computer Simulation)
Computer simulation allows students a realistic and risk-free way to experiment with different face shapes, skin tones, anatomical proportions, and hair texture and visualize how various hairstyles will appear on the client. Students...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Shape Sorter
Students learn how to categorize plane figure polygons using Venn Diagrams with this computer based tool.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Nifty Nets
During this activity, young scholars will create nets for prisms. They will find the volume and surface area of the shapes. They will also use interactive activities to review three-dimensional shapes.This lesson plan was created as a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What's My Equation?
Use TI-Navigator to guess the equation of a famous or interesting shape.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Man
The young scholars will explore angles, rays, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and two-dimensional figures through the use of the book Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons by David A. Adler. They will also...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A What? A What? A Quadrilateral
In this lesson plan, students will identify the characteristics of a quadrilateral. Students will have a chance categorize quadrilaterals into subgroups such as squares, rhombuses, rectangles, and nonregular quadrilaterals. This lesson...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Copying an Angle
Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Draw a Picture 1
Use the problem solving strategy, draw a picture, to identify the characteristics described in the correct picture. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Volume of a Cube
"The volume of a cube can be developed by considering unit cubes, a single row (longs) of unit cubes or a single layer (flats) of cubes using this applet." This easy software makes it possible to easily construct a cube and take it...