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Students learn about how probability can be represented using geometry.

Audiences: Grades 3-5

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Geometry, Probability

Related Topics: angles, circle graph, circles, counting, decimals, estimation, events, experimental probability, fair, fractions, geometric probability, geometry, outcomes, percents, probability, probability simulation, random number, spinner, statistics, theoretical probability

Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, revolving around any line (which yields a 3-D image), rotations about any point, and translations in any direction.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: angles, calculus, coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, polygon, polyhedra, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose

Build a "floor tile" by dragging the corners of a quadrilateral. Learn about tessellation of quadrilateral figures when the shape you built is tiled over an area.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, coordinate plane, coordinate system, length, pattern, planes, quadrilaterals, rectangles, reflections, rhombus, rotation, slides, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation

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. Simple Coordinates Game is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: algebra, cartesian coordinate, coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, graph, integers

Investigate the first quardant of the Cartesian coordinate system by directing a robot through a mine field laid out on the grid. Simple Maze Game is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: algebra, cartesian coordinate, coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, distance, graph

Create a tessellation by deforming a triangle, rectangle or hexagon to form a polygon that tiles the plane. Corners of the polygons may be dragged, and corresponding edges of the polygons may be dragged. Parameters: Colors, starting polygon.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, flips, geometry, glides, hexagon, length, pattern, planes, polygon, reflections, rotation, slides, squares, symmetry, tessellations

Explore the world of translations, reflections, and rotations in the Cartesian coordinate system by transforming squares, triangles and parallelograms. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, hexagon, image, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose, triangle

Build your own polygon and transform it in the Cartesian coordinate system. Experiment with reflections across any line, rotations about any point, and translations in any direction. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: angles, cartesian coordinate, coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, image, linear equations, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose