Gr. 6 Math Gizmos

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This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to find the value of individual terms in an arithmetic or geometric sequence using graphs of the sequence and direct computation. Students can vary the common difference and common ratio and examine how the sequence changes in response. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to find the value of individual terms in arithmetic sequences using graphs of the sequences and direct computation. Students can vary the common difference and examine how the sequences change in response. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to use blocks to build a figure with a given volume. They can then try to balance the blocks on a platform that sits on the tip of a cone. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

With this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can be sightseers visiting fictional cities. They are able to navigate around these cities on a grid-like map. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can explore the differences between kinds of quadrilaterals. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can control the elevator in an apartment building. In "drive mode", the student can drive the elevator and a line graph records its motion. In "program mode", the student can build a line graph and then the elevator moves according to the graph. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to create factor trees to factor composite numbers into primes and to build numbers by multiplying primes together. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to find factors of a number using an area model. Students can reshape the area rectangle to see different factorizations of the number and can find the prime factorization using a factor tree. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students create sums of fraction tiles on two number lines. Sums greater than one are shown as improper fractions on the top number line, and as mixed numbers on the bottom number line. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can drop a number into a function machine and see what number comes out. Students can use one of six pre-set function machines, or program your own function rule into a blank machines. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can drop a number into a function machine and see what number comes out. Students can use one of six pre-set function machines, or program your own function rule into a blank machines. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can drop a number into a function machine and see what number comes out. Students can use one of six pre-set function machines, or program your own function rule into a blank machines. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can simulate randomly throwing darts at a target and seeing what percent are "hits." The Gizmo allows students to study the relationship between the area of the target and the percent of darts that strike it. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this Explore Learning Gizmo, students can create a bar graph, line graph, pie chart or scatter plot based on a given data set. The Gizmo can also be used to create a data table based on a given graph. The resource includes supplementary materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can represent a quantity given by a shaded region as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can investigate the graph of a triangle under constraints and determine which constraints guarantee isosceles or equilateral triangles. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to solve a two‑step equation using a cup‑and‑counter model. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can model and compare decimals using area models. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to solve one‑step equations using tiles. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can explore mean and median by analyzing numerical movie reviews. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can multiply decimals using partial products. Each product is modeled as the area of a rectangle. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can multiply two decimals using a dynamic area model. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to compare and order numbers represented as percents, fractions and decimals using area grids and a number line. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to compare and order numbers greater than one using area grids and a number line. Students can examine the numbers represented as percents, improper fractions and decimals. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can compare a ratio represented by an area with its fraction, decimal and percentage forms. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to find a part from the percent and whole; a percent from the part and whole; or a whole from the part and percent using a graphic model. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to identify the coordinates of points in the coordinate plane. Students can drag the points in the plane and investigate how the coordinates change in response. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to solve compare the graph of a linear function to its rule and to a table of its values. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can simulate polling residents in a large city to determine their response to a yes-no question. Students can see how the normal curve approximates a binomial distribution for large enough polls. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can vary the height and base‑edge or radius length of a prism or cylinder and examine how its three‑dimensional representation changes. Students can also determine the area of the base and the volume of the solid. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can experiment with spinners and compare the experimental probability of particular outcomes to the theoretical probability. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can create quilts with a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of symmetry. The quilts can be folded to look for reflections or rotated to test for rotational symmetry. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can test their reaction time by catching a falling ruler or clicking a target. A data set of results is created and the range, mode, median, and mean of the data set can be displayed. The data can be displayed on a list, table, bar graph or dot plot. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can test their reaction time by catching a falling ruler or clicking a target. A data set of results is created and the range, mode, median, and mean of the data set can be displayed. The data can be displayed on a list, table, bar graph or dot plot. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to create their own rock art with ancient symbols. Each symbol can be translated, rotated, and reflected. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to rotate, reflect and translate a figure in the plane. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to select the correct steps to solve a two-step equation. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can see the results of a spinning wheel game recorded on a frequency table or a circle graph. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can experiment with spinners and compare the experimental probability of a particular outcome to the theoretical probability. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

Using this ExploreLearning Gizmo, students can simulate driving a desert highway searching for buried treasure. Students use the car's tens, ones, tenths, and hundredths gears, along with a GPS system (number line), to find the right place to dig. The resource includes lesson materials and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to measure the angles of a triangle and find the sum. They can then reshape and resize the triangle and confirm that the sum of angle measures is the same for all triangles. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.

This ExploreLearning Gizmo allows students to translate algebraic expressions into English phrases and translate English phrases into algebraic expressions. The resource includes an exploration guide and assessment questions.