Math: Smart Board Activities

These sites have smart board activities for geometry, number and operation concepts, functions and algebra, fractions, and statistics. Explore the many different applets. Included is an eThemes Resource for Geometry for Junior and High School.

Grades

Links

Smarter Ways to Use the Smart Board: Look at the “Polygon Angle Applet” for grades 7 and up. Some of the activities are for all grade levels.
Activities Index: Scroll down for the “Geometry and Measurement Concepts.” Many of these applets would be appropriate for middle school and up.
Browse the Gizmo Collection: Use the five minute free pass and choose from among these topics: “Lines and Angles,” “Reasoning and Proof,” “Right Triangle Trigonometry,” and many more.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: Students can learn about the “Pythagorean Theorem,” “Tangrams,” “Space Blocks,” “Turtle Geometry,” and numerous other geometry topics.
Pattern Blocks: Exploring Fractions with Shapes: Use this site to become familiar with different shapes. Click on “Instructions to Print Out” for a hard copy of the instructions.
Hyperbolic Geometry Article and Applet: Explore these basic concepts: “What is Non-Euclidean Geometry,” “The Shape of Space,” “Axioms and Theorems,” and other concepts.
Mrs. Cordero's Level One Geometry Class: This site has an outline for this particular class which uses the Geometer’s Sketchpad.
eThemes Resource: Math: Geometry for Junior and High School: These sites have information on geometry for junior high and high school students. There are several interactive sites that allow the manipulation of geometric shapes. Also includes hands-on classroom activities and online quizzes. There are examples on how geometry is used in the real world such as geometric shapes in buildings and orienteering.