Applets in MathematicsLearn How to Integrate Applets

into your everyday lessons.

An Inquiry Lesson

Tim is doing a school project on the State of Tennessee. He has decided that he wants to see on average how many people live in each square mile of Tennessee.

What things does Tim need to know to solve his problem?

The area of Tennessee› How could he find this?› What shape is Tennessee?

Parallelogram How do you find the area of a parallelogram? Find out by going to

http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid=__shared&cid=emready@area_pt&lid=7

Base of Tennessee (East to West Measurement) = 430 mi Height of Tennessee (South to North Measurement) = 110

mi

What things does Tim need to know to solve his problem?

How many people live in Tennessee? Go to http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and find

out. So what is the average population per

square mile of Tennessee? Next, compare this population per

square mile to the population per square mile of Pennsylvania, be prepared to share your solution and reasoning.

Need an Activator for Functions?

Check out the Function Machine

http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid=nlvm&cid=4_2&lid=191

Multiplying Signed Numbers Practice

http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/03088/toepassing_wisweb.en.html

Trigonometry - Motivation

http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/activity.jsp?sid=__shared&cid=emready@right_triangles&lid=1

What websites did we just use ?

http://mathforum.org/mathtools/cell/tr,ALL,ALL,ALL/

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html http://www.wolframalpha.com/ http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/bb_dlib.jsp http://www.hippocampus.org/ - We didn’t

visit this one, but it might be nice for struggling students. You can even view topics by page # from YOUR book.

EXPLORE

Take some time and explore these applets/manipulatives. Find some that you could integrate into your daily lessons.