Illuminations paper pool tool

It also allows her the chance to introduce her students to Excel as a means to organize their information. Anthony has also incorporated the lesson Paper Pool into her classroom, and has expanded on the lesson by creating a pentagon-shaped organizing poster. Anthony references the poster throughout the lesson as a way to draw connections between pictorial representations and algebraic formulas.

Anthony has a student who struggles with writing, but with the aid of the Paper Pool Tool, she was able to explain what would happen with pool tables of various dimensions and have his ideas proven quickly. If you would like to rate this lesson, then please register. If I'm doing a large-group presentation, I ask the audience what other size Paper Pool boards they'd like to see, and we discuss as a group; but if we're in a computer lab, I'll then direct folks to the Paper Pool applet on Illuminations and let them play for a while on their own.

I hope that's helpful. It allows the user to investigate several different problems related to the game of Paper Pool. I love to use it with kids BEFORE they understand angle measure, because I think it's a good way to introduce the concept in a tangible, non-threatening way. It's neither for demonstration nor exploration. It's a teacher tool that can be used to generate materials for students.

Perhaps it requires the creation of another category for your list? This is an r2u demonstration applet that was created with GSP.

Cheers, Patrick. I will amend proposal with them. Hiya Paul - I totally like your point. The classification in both style and names must be helpful to the user and that should be forefront to our system. If others are reading this thread, I Linda would ask that if you have an idea about classification styles that you please include them.

For example - I think "this is a resource ready for a demonstration on a class screen" is a good because it says "ready-to-use", "need only a video projector to use" and "demonstration". On the other hand, how detailed can a written classification system be before it becomes unhelpful. That is why I am thinking that "this is a resource ready for a demonstration on a class screen" plus a 2 minute screencast showing a sample use would help quickly and effectively help the teacher after an initial classification.

The proposal is not about classifying applets - thinking deeply about how to classify applets came to us while working on the proposal.

All of your points are extremely valid and I particularly appreciate your point about making a handout. That is a very useful suggestion. The purpose of listing applets under the "classification" was to see whether we Maria and myself understood what the other meant by the "classification" name.

This is where Paul's point is extremely valid. I am most familiar with my own applets and how I use them - hence most of those listed are actually mine. If you read through the thread, you will see that at several points we notice that we are not understanding one another and that this method of giving a sample was helping us. So I want these applets to be classified also. Illuminations has terrific applets, but they are 1.

So many types of applets are not included - particularly applets created by students themselves. Further they cannot be downloaded, used offline, changed or translated. I do like the presentation format the tabs , but not the search format hence the need for classification perceived in this thread. Finally - I will look at activity paper must go but as I recall this is not a diy applet. Please correct me if I am wrong. I look forward to more discussion here!

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