Lesson 4: Out of One Hundred

MathScape Book 1
From Zero to One and Beyond
Lesson 4: Out of One Hundred

Activities (6)

Students work step-by-step through the generation of a different Hilbert-like Curve (a fractal made from deforming a line by bending it), allowing them to explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.

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

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Fractions, Geometry, Number and Operations

Related Topics: decimals, fractals, fractions, geometric sequences, geometry, iteration, length, pattern, self-similarity, sequences, surface area, symmetry

Learn about fractions between 0 and 1 by repeatedly deleting portions of a line segment, and also learn about properties of fractal objects. Parameter: fraction of the segment to be deleted each time.

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

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Geometry, Number and Operations

Related Topics: fractals, fractions, geometric sequences, pattern, pre-calculus, recursion, sequences, sets

Step through the generation of a Hilbert Curve -- a fractal made from deforming a line by bending it, and explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.

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

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Fractions, Geometry, Number and Operations

Related Topics: chaos, fractals, geometric sequences, geometry, iteration, length, lines, pattern, recursion, self-similarity, sequences

Step through the generation of the Koch Snowflake -- a fractal made from deforming the sides of a triangle, and explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.

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

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Fractions, Geometry, Number and Operations

Related Topics: decimals, fractals, geometric sequences, infinity, iteration, lines, pre-calculus, recursion, self-similarity, sequences

Step through the generation of Sierpinski's Triangle -- a fractal made from subdividing a triangle into four smaller triangles and cutting the middle one out. Explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.

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

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Fractions, Geometry, Number and Operations

Related Topics: dimension, fractals, fractions, geometric sequences, geometry, iteration, length, pattern, pre-calculus, recursion, recursive functions, self-similarity, sequences, symmetry, triangle

Step through the tortoise and hare race, based on Zeno's paradox, to learn about the multiplication of fractions and about convergence of an infinite sequence of numbers.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Number and Operations

Related Topics: decimals, distance, fractals, geometric sequences, infinity, iteration, length, logarithm, multiplication, pattern, percentages, percents, proportion, rational numbers, recursion, recursive functions, self-similarity, sequences