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 //Interactivate// is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions.

 There are any number of lessons – from learning about area and volume to studying building and community design – whose concepts are best illustrated in 3D. SketchUp is one of those products that will easily get kids learning – and thinking they're just having fun, as your classes apply SketchUp to geography, social studies, history and industrial technology. Students can use SketchUp to visualize geometry and other mathematical concepts, create models to learn about architecture, and design everything from games and toys to models of spaceships and cars.  media type="custom" key="5677473" This video shows various ways you can tile regular and irregular triangles and quadrilaterals, as well as regular hexagons . You'll also see tesselations of some irregular pentagons and hexagons. The resources on this page will help you bring SketchUp into your classroom and show you some wonderful projects in 2D and 3D geometry.

 ** The problem with grading student worksheets is that you don't get to see how they worked through the process. Sometimes the sequence of their steps isn't clear. Sometimes they even erase their work. Tools like Sketchfu and Muzy make it fun for students to show their work and play the animation of their own thinking process.

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 ** What's My Angle? **

Investigate angles and practice using protractors at "What's My Angle?".

 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is an amazing collection of virtual manipulatives that are organized by grade levels and math strands. Students can use the tools to solve your problems or practice with problems generated by the applets.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> The Illuminations website was created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and includes a library of 105 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home as well as a collection of 549 lessons for preK-12 math educators. The resources are searchable by grade range and math strand.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 154%;">There are literally thousands of online math games. Some are better than others. You can explore games before turning students loose with them or have students explore them and review how useful they are in terms of supporting math objectives. Students will gain valuable math practice and learn how to evaluate web resources.

Here is a small sampling of some popular game sites.



Don't forget to check for game links in your textbooks. Many textbook publishers now offer a wealth of online resources to support the text.