After exploring Thinkfinity/illuminations for at least an hour I have a couple of very useful activities for my mathematics lessons.
The first one is to help with transforming sine and cosine waves. This is a very difficult topic for students and I am hopeful that by showing several examples in class they will be able to get a better grasp of the material. I will plan on projecting the activities for all the kids to see and this way we can go through many examples and I hope the kids will be able to make conclusions and take some notes that will help them with learning the patterns. The link to the activity is http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=174.
The second activity I found is for my Algebra course and deals with solving a system of equations. The link to the activity is http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L766. The students get in such a rush to find the answer to what x and y are, they often forget that they are actually finding a value that means something. I am hopeful that they will enjoy doing this activity and will see how solving systems relates to the "real-world".
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