Applets

COLLECTIONS OF APPLETS
  1. SLU Math Applets
    This is a collection of applets compiled by Saint Louis University, for math classes "below" calculus.
    As a collection of many applets, I'll be able to apply these to a variety of common core objectives.
    Specifically, I really like this collection because it gives good descriptions of each applet and ways that they can be used in a classroom. I'd be able to use these applets to help deepen understandings in my classroom on a variety of topics.


  2. Mathematics Education Applets
    A collection of applets compiled by Todd Swanson at Hope College, this has another good group of applets I can use in my classroom.
    Using this collection of applets, I can meet many different standards of the common core.
    This collection is cleanly set up and describes the uses of each applet. I'd like to use these applets in my classroom to introduce students to tricky topics.


  3. Math and Physics Applets
    These applets were written by Paul Falstad and include applets to help students visualize physics and math concepts.
    I'd be able to apply these applets to standards in the math core as well as the Physics core (since that is my minor).
    In both my math and physics classrooms, I'd be able to use these applets to show students how microscopic and/or "invisible" processes take place in nature, and how the mathematics effect them.


  4. Mit Mathlets
    Mit has a very cohesive group of "mathlets," math applets that can be used to show scientific and mathematical principles in action.
    These are applicable specifically to calculus objectives and physics objectives in the core curriculum.
    I think these applets are really helpful to show students wave functions, derivatives, their uses and other things that commonly are hard for students to grasp.


  5. Interactivate: Activities
    Shodor's activities page has a huge list of applets to be used to teach or to just introduce students to interesting math aplications.
    This collection of applets has a lot of "lower level" math applets. They can apply well to the Math 7 and Math 8 cores as well as review for other math classes.
    I'd love to use these applets to help out students who struggle with fractions, factoring, patterns, and visualizing geometric principles.


INDIVIDUAL APPLETS
  1. Spinner
    This is a probability applet, that shows a spinner with 4 colors of equal area. It counts the spins and calculates the experimentally shown probabilities of landing on each color.
    Standards 1-4 of S-ID (High School Statistics) are specifically touched on by this applet.
    This can help students see that the convergence of many experiments will near the theoretical outcome.


  2. Linear Regression
    With this applet, students can plot points and try different regressions to see what fits with the points posted.
    Again with High School Statistics, Standard 7-9 of S-ID is met using these to show linear lines of best fit.
    I'd like to show this to a class as a way to find lines of fit and to estimate regressions.


  3. Function Mapping
    When using this applet, a graph of a function is generated and students can make guesses on how to transform the initial function to match the graph shown.
    This applet can be applied to help meet Standard 3 of F-BF from the High School Functions core.
    In my future class, I'd like to use this to help students discover the ways that functions can be transformed.


  4. Calculus Grapher
    This applet lets students explore derivatives and integrals by their definitions and allows them to estimate the values for them before finding the "actual" value.
    This applet doesn't connect with any of the common core standards (as none of them touch on calculus) but it would be very useful in a Calculus course.
    Especially when introducing the definition of an integral, I think this applet could help students understand how the integral can be shown graphically.


  5. Triangle Angle Sum
    By manipulating the points in this triangle, a student can see that the interior angle sum of a triangle is 180.
    This connects well with Math 8's Geometry standard, 8.G 5.
    I'd like to use this briefly in a class to give students an opportunity to physically see that the angle sum of a triangle will always (in Euclidean space) be 180 degrees.