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Cob Web Plot - Change variables and observe patterns from this graphing simulation.
Fractals - Iterative - Generate six different fractals.
Fractals - Koch and Sierpinski - Change colors and pause this fractal simulation at any point.
Fractals - Mandelbrot and Julia Sets - Investigate relationships between these two fractal sets.
Fractals - Polygon - Change the parameters to create a new fractal.
Geoboard - Use geoboards to illustrate area, perimeter, and rational number concepts.
Geoboard - Circular - Use circular geoboards to illustrate angles and degrees.
Geoboard - Coordinate - Rectangular geoboard with x and y coordinates.
Geoboard - Isometric - Use geoboard to illustrate three-dimensional shapes.
Golden Rectangle - Illustrates iterations of the Golden Section.
Great Circle - Use a 3D globe to visualize and measure the shortest path between cities.
Pattern Blocks - Use six common geometric shapes to build patterns and solve problems.
Pinwheel Tiling - Construct and explore a very unusual tiling of the plane by right triangles.
Platonic Solids - Identify characteristics of the Platonic Solids.
Platonic Solids - Duals - Identify the duals of the platonic solids.
Platonic Solids - Slicing - Discover shapes and relationships between slices of the platonic solids.
Polyominoes - Build and compare characteristics of biominoes, triominoes, quadrominoes, etc.
Pythagorean Theorem - Solve two puzzles that illustrate the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Space Blocks - Create and discover patterns using three dimensional blocks.
Tangrams - Use all seven Chinese puzzle pieces to make shapes and solve problems.
Tessellations - Using regular and semi-regular tessellations to tile the plane.
Tight Weave - Visualize the creation of the Sierpinski Carpet, an iterative geometric pattern that resembles a woven mat.
Transformations - Composition - Explore the effect of applying a composition of translation, rotation, and reflection transformations to objects.
Transformations - Dilation - Dynamically interact with and see the result of a dilation transformation.
Transformations - Reflection - Dynamically interact with and see the result of a reflection transformation.
Transformations - Rotation - Dynamically interact with and see the result of a rotation transformation.
Transformations - Translation - Dynamically interact with and see the result of a translation transformation.
Turtle Geometry - Explore numbers, shapes, and logic by programming a turtle to move.
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