MASA Online Math Games and Activities Page made especially for the Teachers and Students at U.T.H.S. Summer 2004 Workshops and Academy

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Day 1 Applets

• Cyberchase Airlines Builder Game - Drag (and sometime rotate) pieces to make a spaceship. A spaceship must be an enclosed shape. Detailed instructions are provided if you need them. Quickie online activity sheet is here.
• Transformations Game - Four levels of play (do Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4). Use translation, rotation, reflection, and dilation.

Day 2 ~ Polygons & Properties

• Parallelogram Conditions - Which conditions on a quadrilateral cause it to be a parallelogram? (Part of Explorelearning.com.)
• Polygons Around a Point - Use regular polygons to surround a point in a plane. Make designs. Record your designs. Try not to have gaps or overlaps.
• Tessellate - Start with a shape. Deform it. Then tessellate it. When you get a shape and colors you like, call over the teacher to get it saved. (From Shodor.org.)

Day 3 ~ Visualization and Polyhedra

Platonic Solids - Investigate the five Platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube (hexahedron), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron). Rotate the shape. Shift-click the edges and the faces to color (and count them). Can you make V - E + F = 2? (vertices - edges + faces = two)

Isometric Drawing Tool - Drag cubes to the drawing area to make 3D drawings. Can view in 3D or from top, front, or right side.

Cyberchase Point of View Game - Draw the side views for each of four people.

Day 4 ~ Perimeter and Area

Shape Explorer - Click "Show Score" to keep track of your number correct and incorrect. A shape is given and you have to determine the area and perimeter. Get 4 out of 5 correct and raise your hand for a sticker. ("Adjust the maximum size" three-clicks-to-the-right of the minimum.)

Area Explorer - Set the perimeter and then change the shape and see what areas you can get. All shapes made of unit squares.

For Fun: Explore Sierpinski's Triangle and Sierpinski's Carpet.

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Tessellation Applets

• Tessellations – Using regular and semi-regular tessellations to tile the plane.
• Tessellate - Start with a shape. Deform it. Then tessellate it. Here are some Tessellation Explorations. From Shodor.com
• Floor Tiles - Similar to "Tessellate." Click and drag the corners of the quadrilateral (it starts as a square), then tessellate. (Also from Shodor.com)
• Taprats -Computer-Generated Islamic Star Patterns. This one is a new one, I don't know much about.
• (See Polygons Around a Point above.)