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Over 1,150 illustrated and interlinked math terms
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Easily integrate math vocabulary into your lesson plans! Finding time for math vocabulary can be challenging. Inside Math allows you to ...

Zero in on math concepts in seconds with the Index menu

Bookmark key curriculum terms to present in class

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Check out these great ideas for using Inside Math in the classroom: Classroom Ideas



Teachers can use Inside Math to create micro vocabulary lessons, explore connections between concepts, or to look up terms as they come up in class.

Inside Math's visual & kinesthetic approach allows students to see & touch the concepts being studied.

Unlock the potential of your projectors and whiteboards
Imagine a student moving a 3D dodecahedron, or manipulating a sine wave with her finger. What if you could turn the wall of your classroom into the world’s largest protractor?

Inside Math with a projector or interactive white board is a visually stunning way to spark lively class discussions and get students presenting math concepts.

Inside Math: A Valuable Resource for English Language Learners (ELL)
Experts agree that clear & engaging visuals are essential to ELL students.

Inside Math's 182 interactive examples and 1244 illustrations provide a wealth of useful material for helping English Language Learners visualize the abstractions of mathematical language.

1244 detailed illustrations
182 interactive applets
hypertext links to related terms
audio pronunciation of each term
812 "Try This" questions let students know right away whether they’ve grasped the concept they’re studying
404 Activity Sheets provide ready-made exercises for class discussion, group work, home work, or individual remedial work
36 Enrichment Chapters further develop conceptual thinking skills by challenging students to solve logic puzzles
Cover essential vocabulary from grades 4 to 12 teaching just 1 to 2 terms a day with Inside Math.

Direct vocabulary instruction on specific content-area terms boosts comprehension levels from the 50th to the 83rd percentile.
High achieving students on standardized tests know 4,500 to 6,000 more words than low achieving students.
Results like these have led educational researchers like Robert Marzano to conclude ...
Direct vocabulary instruction is the strongest action school districts can take to improve student results and narrow achievement gaps.
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Classroom Ideas:
Geometry

• Watch the abscissa and ordinate values for ordered pairs change by dragging a point across 4 quadrants of a graph
• Learn when angles are acute, obtuse or right with an interactive protractor
• See the area and perimeter of circles, parallelograms, rectangles, squares and trapezoids change as they get bigger or smaller
• Change the arc, central angle, inscribed angle, segment, sector and chord of circles by dragging interactive points
• See a triangle and its circumcenter change by dragging on its three points
• Make the area, radius, circumference and diameter of a circle change by dragging a point to make it bigger or smaller
• Drag points on graphs to see quadrants, ordered pairs and coordinates change
• Rotate three dimensional solid and wire frame models of polyhedra and platonic solids that include a pyramid, prism, cube, icosahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, and octahedron and tetrahedron
• Model geometric ideas on an interactive geoboard
• See a step-by-step interactive proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
• Explore interactive demonstrations of rotations, reflections and translations

• Click on an interactive number line to see the absolute value of the number chosen
• Explore algebraic concepts with interactive algebra tiles
• Drag a constant function up and down a piece of graph paper and watch the y and y-intercept values change
• Plot and find the roots of quadratic equations
• Move an interactive line to different positions on piece of graph paper and watch how its slope and y-intercept change
• Investigate x and y intercepts by sliding interactive lines that are attached to the x and y axis to different positions on a piece of graph paper
• Enter x and y values for a function in a table of values and see them plotted on a piece of graphing paper
• Arithmetic and Number Theory
• Watch step by step demonstrations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Enter a number, select a base and see it converted to its equivalent value for other bases that include decimal, hexadecimal, duodecimal, octal, ternary and binary
• Interact with addition and multiplication tables shows the sums and the products of numbers between 0 and 9
• Cross multiply fractions to see if they are equal
• Experience the basic operation of division by picking 20 apples from an interactive tree and dividing them equally between 3 baskets
• Play an interactive estimating game to see who can come up with the best estimate for the product of two numbers
• Create factor tress for numbers between 1 and 500
• See fractions with numerators and denominators between 0 and 20 visually represented by a circle divided into red and white pie slices
• Drag weights onto the pans of an interactive scale to explore greater than, less than, less than or equal to and greater than or equal to.
• Use interactive base10 number blocks to explore place value
• Determine prime numbers for values from 2 to 100 using an interactive version of the Sieve of Eratosthenes
• Find the greatest common factor for two numbers using a simple template

• Slide a scroll bar up and down and see a visual comparison of changes in temperature on Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin Scales
• Explore changes in measure for angles of incidence and reflection with an interactive flashlight
• Drag a circle, a parallelogram, a rectangle, a square, a trapezoid and a triangle and watch measures of their different attributes such as area, base, height, and width change grow larger or smaller
• Calculate sales commissions, discount pricing, markups and markdowns and sales tax rates with simple interactive templates
• Explore and compare the concepts of compound and simple interest with an interactive template
• Convert measures of area, length and distance, volume and capacity, and weight and mass with a series of conversion templates
• Click on a series of clock to explore the 5 North American time zones
• Compare your weight on earth with your weight on the moon and the other eight planets
• Probability & Statistics
• See the impact changing data has upon a bar graph, a circle graph, a histogram, and a pictograph
• Run animated Bernoulli trials with 2 to 7 possible outcomes
• Make revisions to a data set and watch the impact this has upon a related frequency table
• Perform probability experiments with a probability spinner that can be adjusted to provide 2 to 6 possible outcomes and to measure up to 999 spins at a time
• Explore an interactive version of Pascal's Triangle
• Generate all of the possible permutations for a word with 7 letters or less

• Watch angles of depression and elevation change with visual animations of a hang glider and a sail boat
• Interact with animations of sine and cosine functions that are defined using the unit circle
• Explore how trigonometric ratios can be defined by the unit circle by dragging an interactive figure through the four quadrants of a graph
• Enrichment
• Represent numbers on an interactive abacus
• Meet the challenge of classic logic games and reasoning problems that include:
• Farmer, Wolf, Goat, and Cabbage Problem
• Four Color Problem
• Jacob's Ladder
• Peg Game
• Rolling Cubes Puzzle
• Three Glass Problem
• Towers of Hanoi
• Tackle Three Classic "Chess" Challenges
• Four Knights Problem
• Gentle Bishops
• Queen's Problem
• Play Conway's Game of Life
• Build logic circuits using an interactive tool containing 7 different logic gates that can be combined into networks
• Use interactive tangram pieces to match a silhouetted figure or to create your own designs
• Watch three different patterns get tessellated

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