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Applets and Internet Resources Assignment

• Collections of Applets
  1. Visual Maths Applets This website is a repository of GeoGebra applets. They are all applets that can be used to teach math! They have applets for geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and patterns.
  2. Math Insight Applets This is a list of a bunch of applets. There are 18 pages, and there are applets for a bunch of different things. Some of them are more complicated like illustrating the calculation of a Riemann Sum, and some are super simple like creating a line.
  3. Math Ed Applets This is a list of a bunch of applets that Henri Picciotto created in GeoGebra. They are meant to be paired with multidimensional pedagogy and help “students to engage intellectually rather than watch passively.” There are sections for algebra, fractions, functions, geometry, and other.
  4. Integral Domain Applets This is a list of links to a bunch of different applets. A lot of them are specifically for higher education. They have sections for precalculus/trigonometry, calculus, numerical methods, algebra, permutations and tableaux, graphs, programming and graphics, games, advising/faculty, algorithms, and other. One thing I like about this one is it has a ton of sections that others don’t!
  5. Int Math Applets This is a list of links to various different applets. It is a lot like the one before, with a bunch of different sections. Some sections that look interesting to me are calculators, matrices, polar coordinates, and math art in code.

• Specific Applets
  1. Math Insight Applet This applet graphs exponential functions. I can use it by coming up with a simple exponential function that represents animal population for different species, and graphing it here to visualize it.
  2. Math Insight Applet This applet takes the derivative of a piecewise linear function. I can graph a piecewise function that represents an animal population and use the applet to find the derivate of it and how fast the population is growing at different times.
  3. Int Math Applet This is an interactive matric applet. I can use this to figure out how to model my animal functions with matrices, and maybe even use matrices to help me figure out the functions and algorithms.
  4. Int Math Applet This applet finds related rates between two variables. I can use it by plugging in two equations for the animals, and seeing how they relate.
  5. Math Insight Applet This applet fits a linear model to population change as a function of population size. I can use this by inputting my projected numbers for population, and see a fitting linear model.

• Resources
  1. Oreilly This is how to write your first program in Javascript. This is going to help me start making the program that creates the equation for how many animals you will have.
  2. Beef2live This is a list of the gestation period for a lot of different animals. I will use this website and a lot of others to collect information about different animals to create different equations for each animal.
  3. Technical Glossary . This website talks about different types of statistical models. I will use it to help me make multiple different models for my data and see which one works the best.
  4. Cheat Sheet" This is a “cheat sheet” for JavaScript. I will use this to help me program my equation for how many animals you will have.
  5. A-Z Animals" This is an animal encyclopedia. It has a ton of information on a ton of animals. I will use this to get information that I need about different animals.

Pupils Pondering the Pythagorean Theorem

Applet 1

Applet 2

Applet 3

animals