Hands-on MATH
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| Item | PBL Handout | Domain | Concept Covered | Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Difficulty level | Classroom activity |
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| Item | PBL Handout | Domain | Concept Covered | Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Difficulty level | Classroom activity |
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| The Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem | No | Equidecomposable | Demo Link | Download Link | Demo Link 2 | ||||
| A Craftsman Divides a Rectangle | No | Rectangles&Congruent Triangles&Measurement | Demo Link | Download Link | |||||
| Dimensions of the rectangle with largest area inscribed in an equilateral triangle | No | Derivation | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Steiner Problem | No | Diagonals-Lines-Points | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Polycircles | No | Linear Equations and Circles | Download Link | ||||||
| Circle Packing | No | Tessellation | Download Link | Poster Link | |||||
| Math and Snowflakes | No | Fractals and Polyhedra | Download Link | Order Link | |||||
| Efficient Packing | No | Volume and Area | Download Link | ||||||
| Track Design | No | Calculating Arc Lengths | Download Link | ||||||
| Efficient Cutting | No | Volume and Capacity | Download Link | ||||||
| Keep Your Distance | No | Diagonals-Geometric Reasoning | Download Link | Poster Link | |||||
| Cuboid Challenge | No | Volume | Download Link | Poster Link | |||||
| Arclets Explained | No | Arcs of A Circle | Download Link | ||||||
| History of Fractions | No | Fractions | Download Link | ||||||
| Whirling Fibonacci Squares | No | Sequence-Ratio | Download Link | ||||||
| Twisting and Turning | No | Fractions-Reciprocals | Download Link | Download Link 2 | |||||
| Maths Filler | No | Analyzing The Key Features of a Graph | Download Link | ||||||
| Investigating Solids with Face-transitivity | No | Vector Algebra | Download Link | ||||||
| Stadium Sightline | No | Similarity and Trigonometry | Download Link | ||||||
| USN | Yes | Graphing Functions | Download Link 1 | ||||||
| Dick Ruth's hinged model of a quadrilateral to two identical parallelograms | Yes | Dissections | Download Link | ||||||
| Size of the Sun | Yes | Similarity | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Inclinometer | Yes | Indirect Measurement | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Clinometer | Yes | Indirect Measurement | YouTube Video | Download Link | Download Link 2 | ||||
| Piano-Hinged Dissections: Time to Fold! | No | Dissections | Online Order | ||||||
| Plane & Fancy | No | Dissections | Download Link | Download Link 2 | Download Link 3 | ||||
| Dissections of Cubes | No | Dissections | Video | Download Link | |||||
| Dodecahedron | No | Tensegrity | Download Link | ||||||
| Natural Shapes | No | Fractal | Download Link | ||||||
| Polyhedra with Concave Pentagons | No | Concave | Download Link | ||||||
| Tau Towers | No | Geometric Series | Download Link | ||||||
| Leonardo da Vinci’s Canal Lock | No | Angles in Real Life | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Geoboard | No | Pythagorean Theorem Proof by Area | Sample | Online Order | |||||
| Tangram | No | Symmetry | YouTube Video | Online order | |||||
| Prove πR² using only beads and a ruler! | No | Area of a circle | YouTube Video | Online Order | |||||
| A Carpenter Draws a Circle | No | Center of a Circle | YouTube Video | Demo Link | Online Order | ||||
| Construction Games with Kepler's Solid | No | Rhombic Dodecahedron Geometric Shapes | YouTube Video | Download Link Page 76 | Order Link | ||||
| Hypercubes Single Cube | No | A Transformation Sequence of One Single Cube | YouTube Video | Online Order | |||||
| Missing Square-Triangle Version | No | Slope | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Buckyballs | No | Hexagon | Video | Download Link | Order Link | ||||
| Mind Reading | No | Binary Numbers and Exponents | Google Site | Online Order | |||||
| Sierpinski Pyramid (2052 Balls) made with NeoCube magnets | No | Pyramid and Sequences | YouTube Video | Download Link | Online Order | ||||
| Non Circular Wheels | No | Geometric Shapes | YouTube | ||||||
| Kostics | No | Geometric Structures Stars | Online Resource | ||||||
| Magic Triangle | No | Slope | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Mitsunobu Matsuyama's "Paradox" | No | Area of a Square | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Icosahedron | No | Surface Area of Geometrical Shapes | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Geodesic Dome | No | Triangle and Geometric Shapes in Real Life | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Dodecahedral Shape-shifter | No | Geometrical Shapes Dodecahedron | YouTube Link | Download Link | |||||
| Impossible Cut 1 | No | Optical illusion Vertical and Horizontal | YouTube Video | Download Link | Download Link 2 | ||||
| Triangle to Parallelogram | No | Dissections | Download Link | ||||||
| Card Tricks | No | Patterns | Download Link | ||||||
| What's Happening? | No | Patterns | Download Link | ||||||
| Cut The Triangle | No | Triangle | YouTube Video | Solution Link | |||||
| Seven Squares | No | Patterns | Download Link | ||||||
| Transform your equilateral triangle into a square | No | Transformation | Download Link | ||||||
| Rectangles and Squares Puzzle | No | LCM and GCD | YouTube Video | Solution Video | |||||
| Impossible Cut 2 | No | Optical illusion | Download Link 1 | Download Link 2 | |||||
| 3D-Paper-Structure | No | Optical illusion | Youtube Video | Download Link | |||||
| 64 = 65 ? | No | Slope-Area | YouTube | ||||||
| Designing Pool | Yes | Slope and Volume | |||||||
| Fibonacci Sequence | Yes | Sequence | Video Link | ||||||
| Golden Ratio - Secret of Tallness | No | Ratios and Sequences | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| A Stitch in Time | Yes | Tansformations | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Board Game | Yes | Linear and Quadratic Equations | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Build Green Houses | Yes | Volume | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Buy Your Own House | Yes | Functions and Equations | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Cartoon for Linear and Quadratic Functions | Yes | Linear and Quadratic Functions | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Cell Phone Plans | Yes | Graphing Functions | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Clinometer | Yes | Similarity | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Design Your Own Light | Yes | Sphere with Rectangular Shapes | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Bee Mathematics | No | Area of Hexagon | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Reciprocal Roof Frame Coast | No | Geometry in Real Life | YouTube Video | Download Link | |||||
| Gauge of Golden Ratio | Yes | Ratio | YouTube Video | ||||||
| Geometrical Town | Yes | Scale | YouTube Video 1 | YouTube Video 2 | YouTube Video 3 | ||||
| History of Algebra | Yes | History of Algebra. | YouTube | ||||||
| History of Geometry | Yes | History of Geometry | YouTube | ||||||
| Image Creation Using Equations | Yes | Equations | YouTube | ||||||
| Largest Cup of Coffee | Yes | Ratio-Rate | YouTube Link | ||||||
| Magic Elliptical Billiard Table | Yes | Ellips | YouTube | Resource Website 2 | Resource Website | ||||
| Making Kaleidoscopes | Yes | Reflection | YouTube | ||||||
| Making Soccer Ball | Yes | Trigonometry-Shapes | YouTube Link | ||||||
| Making Spider Web | Yes | Coordinate Plane - Area | YouTube 1 | YouTube 2 | |||||
| Music Box | Yes | Algebra | YouTube | ||||||
| My Company | Yes | Functions | YouTube | ||||||
| One Shape to Fit All | Yes | Nets | YouTube | ||||||
| One Year Weight Loss Program | Yes | Graphing Functions | YouTube | ||||||
| Polynomial Pictures | Yes | Polynomials | Resource Website | ||||||
| Powers of Ten | Yes | Exponents-Powers | YouTube | ||||||
| Purchase Your Dream Life | Yes | Functions | YouTube | ||||||
| Remodeling Your House | Yes | Functions | YouTube | ||||||
| Same Space Different Options | Yes | Ratio-Similarity-Functions-Area | YouTube | ||||||
| Slope Alphabet | Yes | Slope | YouTube | ||||||
| Soup Cans | Yes | Minimum Surface Area of Cylinders | Video | ||||||
| Time of Death | Yes | Variables-Functions-Formulas | YouTube | ||||||
| Truth in Advertising | Yes | Volume | YouTube | ||||||
| Unfolding a Dodecahedron to Produce a Stage Last | Yes | Symmetries-Reflections | YouTube | ||||||
| Puzzle of Azulejos | No | 3- Geometry | Order Link | Medium | |||||
| Winston Freer Tile Puzzle | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Volume with affecting the surface area | YouTube Video | Online Order | Online Order Link 2 | Easy | ||
| Hologram Image | No | 3- Geometry | Reflection | Youtube Video | Download Link | Advanced | |||
| Six Discs | No | 3- Geometry | Calculating Areas and Using Trigonometry. | Student Handout | Teacher Handout | Answer Key | Order circular discs | Medium |  |
| Horizontal Sundial | No | 3- Geometry | Trigonometric Equation | YouTube Video | Download Link | Download Link 2 | Medium | ||
| Infinite Chocolate Bar | Yes | 3- Geometry | Slope-Area-Dimensions | YouTube Video | YouTube Video 2 | YouTube Video 3 | Download Link | Medium | |
| Curvy Dissections | No | 3- Geometry | Finding The Area of Curvilinear Shapes | Download Link | Advanced | ||||
| Giant Sphere | Yes | 3- Geometry | Surface Area-Similarity-Ratio | Order Link | YouTube Link | Medium | |||
| Solitaire Marble | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Commutative Property | YouTube Video | Online order | Website | Medium | ||
| Menger Sponge | No | 3- Geometry | Fractal Geometry | Order Link | Download Link | Completed Project | Website | Advanced | |
| 10 Piece Pyramid Puzzle | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Pyramid | YouTube Video | Online order | Medium | | ||
| Missing Square Puzzle | No | 1- Numbers & operations | YouTube | Download Link | Order Link | Medium | |||
| The Modern Japanese Abacus | No | 1- Numbers & operations | 4 Operations | Online Order | Advanced | | |||
| Pyramid Ball | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Pyramid | YouTube Video | Online order | Medium | |||
| Vanishing area paradox | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Area | Download Link | Order Link | Medium | | ||
| Dudeney's Dissection | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Dissection | YouTube Video | Download Link | Medium | |||
| Soap Films and Minimal Surfaces | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Surface | YouTube Video | Order Link | Advanced | | ||
| 2 Piece Pyramid Puzzle | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Pyramid | YouTube Video | Online order | YouTube | Medium | ||
| Ambiguous Cube Missing Corner 3-D Cube | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Cube and illusion | YouTube Video | Download Link | Online Order | Medium | | |
| Napier's Rods and Abacus | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Square Roots | YouTube Video | Download Link | Online Order | Medium | | |
| Jumbling Tower (Jenga Game) | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Probability | YouTube Video | Download Link | Medium | |||
| Hoberman Sphere | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Polyhedron-Icosidodecahedron | YouTube Video | Online order | Medium | | ||
| Math From Soap Bubbles | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Trigonometry | YouTube Video | Download Link | Order Link | Medium | ||
| Tower of Hanoi | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Formulas and Sequences | YouTube Video | Download Link | Google Site | Order Link | Medium | |
| Pythagorean Theorem | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Pythagorean Theorem Water Proof | YouTube Video | Medium | | |||
| Ellipsograph | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Graphing Ellipses | YouTube Video | Online Order | Download Link | Medium | | |
| 4 Cube Transformation | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Cube Transformation | YouTube Video | Online Order | Medium | | ||
| Cubes and Pyramids | No | 1- Numbers & operations | Cube Transformations | YouTube Video | Online Order | Medium | |
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