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Math Slice

Math Slice

For Students 9th - 10th
More than three dozen math games, exercises and tools help students sharpen their math skills in engaging, interactive exercises. There are also a few literacy games available from this page.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
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NASA

Klass: Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System (KLASS) program is an exciting way to bring the space shuttle program into your classroom. If you are looking for creative ways to develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)...
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NASA

Nasa Smartskies: Line Up With Math: Math Based Decisions in Air Traffic Control

For Students 9th - 10th
In association with NASA, LineUp With Math presents problem sets which 'enable students to explore and apply decision-making and reasoning skills, specifically to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts in air traffic control'. An...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Archery

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Use our interactivity to simulate picking up a bow and some arrows and trying to hit the target a few times. Can you work out the best settings for the sight? This activity gives an opportunity to gather and collate data, and to test...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Graphing Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The Math Forum provides chat areas, simulations, JAVAapplets, problems, answers, puzzles, quizzes and tutoring! Links are also provided for additional information.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Projectile Motion With Angry Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze the path of a bird's flight as it attempts to obliterate pigs in the well-known game, Angry Birds. Comes with lab activities, a video, and a simulation. The latter requires software called Tracker, which is free to download.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Circular Well Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation models the 2D energy eigenstates of a particle trapped in a very deep two-dimensional circular well.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Scalar Field Gradient Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate scalar and vector fields though a downloadable java simulation. The simulation explores the gradient of a scalar field using a numerical approximation to the partial derivatives.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Minkowski Diagram Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation examining simultaneity and causality in special relativity by manipulating the space and time coordinates of one or two events.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Binomial Distribution Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable mathematics java simulation explores the binomial probability distribution model. The probability and number of trials can be changed to see the effect on the distribution model.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Uniform Spherical Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The java simulation demonstrates methods for picking a random point on a sphere. Both the incorrect method of a uniform random distribution as well as the correct weighted distribution are shown.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Random Number Generator Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation is an interactive linear congruent random number generator model. Students use paper and pencil to calculate the first few terms and then use the generator to check their calculations.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Harmonics and Fourier Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The downloadable interactive java simulation displays the sum of harmonics through a Fourier series to yield a new wave.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Functions Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This downloadable java simulation shows a variety of special functions. Functions included are Legendre polynomials, Chebyshev polynomials, and Bessel functions.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Lorenz Attractor Periodic Orbits

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulation of a Lorenz attractor which is shaped like a butterfly. Manipulate the image and observe from all sides as the orbits about two fixed points are drawn.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiple Coin Toss Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore flipping multiple coins through this downloadable java simulation. The complete results of the tossing experiment is shown on a graph of the cumulative probability of heads.
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Other

Math, Physics and Engineering Applets

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by Paul Falstad, these educational Java applets address myriad concepts related to electrostatics, magnetostatics and electrodynamics. You'll find instructions on how to operate each applet, but little explanatory material.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Micrometer Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use this virtual model to simulate the basic operations and accuracy of a micrometer while manipulating the physical parts of the object.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Electric Field and Potential

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An electrostatic simulation that moves beyond the two-dimensional representations a book may provide. Try this Gauss' Law model which shows the electric field and potential for cylindrical and spherical symmetry.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: E X B Trajectory Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simulate the motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields, and then complete the equations of motion using the Lorentz force law.
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American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Galton Board Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Simulate the binomial distribution of a Galton board as a ball is dropped into the device. Investigate the probability of the ball going to the right or to the left with each bounce off a peg.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Use a Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice using a simulation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.

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