Lesson Plans
Elementary School (K-5) Lesson Plans and Informative Links on INFINITY:
Awesome Library Education
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 29,000 carefully reviewed resources. The link below lists many elementary school math lesson plans, games, information, discussions, materials, papers, projects, standards, and worksheets. Also included is an Infinity resource.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Mathematics/Elementary_School_Math/Elementary_School_Math.html
Infinity from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
Infinity Questions and Answers
The Math Forum at Drexil: Ask Dr. Math.
Includes basic questions about infinity asked by elementary level students.
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/elem_infinity.html
LessonPlanet
Over 25 teacher reviewed lessons on infinity.
Must be a Lesson Planet member to access:
http://www.educationplanet.com/search/newsearch?media=lessons&keywords=Infinity#
MegaMath Project
The Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/welcome.html
Welcome to the Hotel Infinity!
MegaMath project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/infinity/infinity.html
Middle School (6-8) Lesson Plans and Informative Links on INFINITY:
Awesome Library Education
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 29,000 carefully reviewed resources. The link below lists middle school math lesson plans, games, information, discussions, materials, papers, projects, standards, and worksheets.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Mathematics/Middle-High_School_Math/Middle-High_School_Math.html
Fractals and the Chaos Game
This activity is designed to further the work of the
Geometric Fractals lesson by showing students how the Sierpinski triangle can arise from seemingly totally unrelated sources. This gives the students an appreciation of the interconnections of different kinds of mathematics.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac3.html
Infinity from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
Infinity: You can't get there from here!
A good introductory essay on Cantor’s work on cardinal numbers.
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/infinity/index.asp
Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals
This activity is designed to further the work of the
Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion lesson by showing students other classical fractals, the Sierpinski Triangle and Carpet, this time involving iterating with a plane figure.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac2.html
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
This lesson is designed to get students to think about several of the concepts from fractals, including recursion and self similarity. The mathematical concepts of line segments, perimeter, area and infinity are used, and skill at pattern recognition is practiced.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac1.html
LessonPlanet
Over 25 teacher reviewed lessons on infinity.
Must be a Lesson Planet member to access:
http://www.educationplanet.com/search/newsearch?media=lessons&keywords=Infinity#
The Math Forum at Drexil
Links to forums discussing the topic infinity.
http://mathforum.org/library/topics/infinity/
Welcome to the Hotel Infinity!
MegaMath project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
When turn-of-the-century mathematician Georg Cantor approached the subject of infinity with mathematical rigor, he encountered many paradoxes. At the
Hotel Infinity, these paradoxes come to life.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/infinity/infinity.html
High School (9-12) Lesson Plans and Informative Links on INFINITY:
Awesome Library Education
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 29,000 carefully reviewed resources. The link below lists high school math lesson plans, games, information, discussions, materials, papers, projects, standards, and worksheets.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Mathematics/Middle-High_School_Math/Middle-High_School_Math.html
Contemplating Infinity: A Philosophical Perspective by Peter Tyson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/contemplating.html
Fractals and the Chaos Game
This activity is designed to further the work of the
Geometric Fractals lesson by showing students how the Sierpinski triangle can arise from seemingly totally unrelated sources. This gives the students an appreciation of the interconnections of different kinds of mathematics.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac3.html
Infinityactivity Developed by: Heather Maltzan.
Target Audience: 9th grade (beginning of school year).
Students will review the concept of infinity and examine their previous knowledge. There are a few activities with which students can express their understanding of the concept.
http://www.rit.edu/~comets/pages/lessonplans/infin.html
Infinity from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
Infinity: You can’t get there from here!
A good introductory essay on Cantor’s work on cardinal numbers.
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/infinity/index.asp
Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals
This activity is designed to further the work of the
Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion lesson by showing students other classical fractals, the Sierpinski Triangle and Carpet, this time involving iterating with a plane figure.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac2.html
Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
This lesson is designed to get students to think about several of the concepts from fractals, including recursion and self similarity. The mathematical concepts of line segments, perimeter, area and infinity are used, and skill at pattern recognition is practiced.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/frac1.html
LessonPlanet
Over 25 teacher reviewed lessons on infinity.
Must be a Lesson Planet member to access:
http://www.educationplanet.com/search/newsearch?media=lessons&keywords=Infinity#
The Math Forum at Drexil
Links to forums discussing the topic of infinity.
http://mathforum.org/library/topics/infinity/
Scientific American
“Is Space Finite?” Conventional wisdom says the universe is infinite. But it could be finite, merely giving the illusion of infinity. Upcoming measurements may finally answer this ancient question. By Jean-Pierre Luminet , Glenn D. Starkman and Jeffrey R. Weeks.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00065A99-90A6-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&catID=2
Working with Infinity: A Mathematical Perspective
An interview with Dr. Reviel Netz.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/infinity.html
Zeno’s Paradoxes
1997 Essay by Jim Loy.
http://www.jimloy.com/physics/zeno.htm
Links to North American Mathematical Societies
American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/
American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main
Mathematical Association of America
http://www.maa.org/
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org/
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
http://www.siam.org/
