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Overlapping Gaussians

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Adjust the overlap to compare probabilities. Using sliders, learners adjust the shape of two Gaussian curves. The interactive calculates the area of the left tail for one curve and the right tail for the other. Pupils set the interactive...
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Experimental Probability

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Spin into a dicey experiment. Pupils use a spinner or a pair of dice to determine the experimental probabilities of each outcome. The interactive allows for either, one, five, or ten consecutive experiments. Using the applet, learners...
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Sequencer

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Take the first step into graphing sequences. Learners set the starting number, multiplier, add-on, and the number of steps for a sequence. Using the inputs, the interactive calculates and plots the sequence on the coordinate plane. Users...
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Possible or Not?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What does the graph mean? Pupils view 10 graphs and determine whether they are possible based on their contexts. The contexts are distance versus time and profit versus time.
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Cross Sections

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Use this activity on cross-sections of three-dimensional shapes in your math class to work on algebra or geometry Common Core standards. The lesson includes a list of relevent terminology, and a step-by-step process to illustrate the...
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Shodor: Newton Raphson Method

For Students 11th - 12th
This page offers an explanation of the Newton-Raphson Method for finding the roots of a function. Includes both graphical and textual information and provides links to an online interactive tool for finding function roots.
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Shodor: Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains Logarithms. The site has examples the student can examine and exmples the student can work and check online.
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Shodor Interactivate: Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity from Shodor Education Foundation will help you learn or review your angle vocabulary.
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Shodor Interactivate: Order of Operations Four

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students play a generalized version of connect four, gaining the chance to place a piece on the board by answering order of operations questions (addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents, and parentheses).
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Shodor Interactivate: Advanced Monty Hall

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose one of N doors to experimentally determine the odds of winning the grand prize behind one of the doors, as in the TV program "Let's Make a Deal."
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Shodor Interactivate: Arithmetic Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This activity gives the user randomized questions to answer on arithmetic with whole numbers and integers.
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Shodor Interactivate: Buffon's Needle

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment with a simulation to get an approximation of Pi by dropping a needle on a lined sheet of paper.
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Shodor Interactivate: Shape Builder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity operates in one of two modes: auto draw and create shape mode, allowing you to explore relationships between area and perimeter.
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Shodor Interactivate: Crazy Choices Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once.
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Shodor Interactivate: Marbles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about sampling with and without replacement by randomly drawing marbles from a bag.
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Shodor Interactivate: Julia Sets

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter a complex value for "c" in the form of an ordered pair of real numbers. The applet draws the fractal Julia set for that seed value.
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Shodor Interactivate: Fractal Dimensions

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the fractal dimensions of several line-deformation fractals. Input the scale factor and number of similar copies, and the dimension will be calculated.
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Shodor Interactivate: Function Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity allows the user to find the volume and surface area of various functions as they are rotated around axes. This applet can be used to practice finding integrals using the disk and washer methods of calculating volume.
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Shodor Interactivate: Simple Coordinates Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of randomly generated points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
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Shodor Interactivate: General Coordinates Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Investigate the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of a randomly generated point, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.