Shared Gizmo List: MP3: 6th Grade Math Gizmos

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6.15 a-b: Balance Point and Measure of Center

Mean, Median, and Mode Build a data set and find the mean, median, and mode. Explore the mean, median, and mode illustrated as frogs on a seesaw, frogs on a scale, and as frogs stacked under a bar of variable height.
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Reaction Time 2 (Graphs and Statistics) Test your reaction time by catching a falling ruler or clicking a target. Create a data set of experiment results, and calculate the range, mode, median, and mean of your data. Data can be displayed on a list, table, bar graph or dot plot. The Reaction Time 2 Student Exploration focuses on mean.
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Movie Reviewer (Mean and Median) Movie reviewers rate movies on a scale of 0 to 10. Each movie comes with a set of reviews that can be changed by the user. The mean of a data set can be explored using a see-saw balance model. Students can also find the median, mode, and range of the data set.
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6.10 a-d: Circumference, Area, Perimeter, Volume, and Surface Area

Measuring Trees Measure the height, diameter, and circumference of trees in a forest. Count growth rings to determine the age of each tree. Grow the trees for several years and investigate how growth is affected by precipitation.
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Circumference and Area of Circles Resize a circle and compare its radius, circumference, and area.
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Balancing Blocks (Volume) This Gizmo provides you with two challenges. First, use blocks to build a figure with a given volume. Then, try to balance the blocks on a platform that sits on the tip of a cone. The dimensions of the platform can be adjusted, and blocks can be added or deleted by clicking on the model.
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Area of Parallelograms Examine and manipulate a parallelogram and find its area. Explore the relationship between the area of a parallelogram and the area of a rectangle using an animation.
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Fido's Flower Bed (Perimeter and Area) Construct models of gardens on a grid using squares of sod. Fence the gardens to find and compare perimeters. Work with pre-built gardens made of 36 squares each to compare perimeters of shapes with equal areas.
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Perimeter and Area of Rectangles Discover how to find the perimeter and area of a rectangle, and of a square (which is really just a special case of a rectangle).
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Prisms and Cylinders Vary the height and base-edge or radius length of a prism or cylinder and examine how its three-dimensional representation changes. Determine the area of the base and the volume of the solid. Compare the volume of an oblique prism or cylinder to the volume of a right prism or cylinder.
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Surface and Lateral Areas of Prisms and Cylinders Vary the dimensions of a prism or cylinder and investigate how the surface area changes. Use the dynamic net of the solid to compute the lateral area and the surface area of the solid.
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Area of Triangles Use a dynamic triangle to explore the area of a triangle. With the help of an animation, see that any triangle is always half of a parallelogram (with the same base and height). Likewise, a similar animation shows the connection between parallelograms and rectangles.
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6.13: Quadrilaterals

Classifying Quadrilaterals Apply constraints to a quadrilateral, and then reshape and resize it. Classify the figure by its constraints. Explore the differences between the different kinds of quadrilaterals.
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Parallelogram Conditions Apply constraints to a dynamic quadrilateral. Then drag its vertices around. Determine which constraints guarantee that the quadrilateral is always a parallelogram.
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6.7: Computation of Decimals

Sums and Differences with Decimals Find the sum or difference of two decimal numbers using area models. Find the decimals and their sum or difference on a number line.
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Multiplying with Decimals Multiply two decimals using a dynamic area model. On a grid, shade the region with width equal to one of the decimals and height equal to the other decimal and find the area of the region.
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6.9: Ballpark Comparisons between US Customary and Metric Measurement

Cannonball Clowns (Number Line Estimation) Launch clowns from a circus cannon and try to hit the target. Drag digit cards on the control panel to set the launch distance and choose an appropriate unit of distance. After practicing your clown-launching skills on a number line, move on to the Big Top, Football Field, School Buses, the Golden Gate Bridge, and more!
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