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Nctm: Illuminations: Chairs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This application is used to explore the number of chairs needed when tables are rearranged in a restaurant.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Triangle Inequality

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity illustrates the Triangle Inequality and the conditions necessary for a triangle to be formed from three straight lines.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Histogram Tool

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tool can be used to create a histogram for analyzing the distribution of a data set using data that you enter or using pre-loaded data that you select.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Fraction and Percent Tool

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tool allows you to explore fractions, decimals and percents by creating fractions with denominators up to 100.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Name Letters

For Students 9th - 10th
Crack the code and can determine the cost of your name. Use this activity to practice solving systems of equations.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Electronic Abacus

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This applet explores the use of an abacus model for representing numbers and for performing addition.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Concentration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Play a matching game with different representations of equivalent items.
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Nctm: Illuminations: A Geometric Investigation of (A + B)2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive demonstrates why (a + b)2 = a2 +2ab + b2.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Five Frame

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.
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Nctm: Illuminations: Adjustable Spinner

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this tool to create a spinner to examine experimental and theoretical outcomes.
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Nctm: Figure This: Airport Runways

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are airport runways numbered? The math challenge is to figure out the missing runway number.
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Nctm: Figure This: Archeology

For Students 4th - 8th
Site A! Site B! How alike are we? Using the information from the chart, which two dig sites seem to be most alike?
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Nctm: Figure This: Bowl Em 'Over

For Students 9th - 10th
Does he have a chance? In this math challenge, estimate Helix's chances of winning the bowling tournament.
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Nctm: Figure This: Glide Ratio

For Students 6th - 8th
How far can you fly a paper airplane? Math challenge provides practice in comparing quantities.
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Nctm: Figure This: Japanese Floors

For Students 9th - 10th
How do I cover thee? Let me count the ways. The challenge is to figure out in how many ways can the Tatami mats be arranged to cover the floor.
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Nctm: Figure This: Statue of Liberty

For Students 6th - 8th
Is the Statue of Liberty's nose too long? Challenge is to figure out the length of the Statue of Liberty's nose by knowing the length of her arm.
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Nctm: Figure This: Salaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the information from the U.S. Census to determine if women will ever earn as much money as men.
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Nctm: Figure This: Tern Turn

For Students 9th - 10th
Math activity challenges you to figure out how fast an Arctic tern can fly around the world. How long would it take to fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back?
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Nctm: Figure This: Play Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a table to figure out if a baseball valued at $3000 in 1927 is worth more than a baseball valued at $3 million in 1999. Which is a better investment?
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Nctm: Figure This: Which Way?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math activity challenges you to determine how many different ways there are to get to your destination.
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Nctm: Figure This: Decorating Boxes

For Students 9th - 10th
How do you print a ribbon on a box? The challenge is to figure out which of the patterns can be folded into a box with an orange ribbon printed all the way around it?
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The Math Forum: Algebra Problem of the Week

For Students 9th - 10th
This Math Forum resource poses a weekly problem to students. If desired, students may submit their answers. Solutions are published the next week.
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The Math Forum: The Beginnings of Topology Leonard Euler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a general description of one of Euler's contributions, topology. It also presents one of the more famous problems of mathematics, The Bridges of Konigsberg.
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The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Constructing an Ellipse

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Math, in a reply to a student question, mentions how you can construct an ellipse using string and thumbtacks.