Exploring Polar Graphs @ Wolfram
Wolfram's interactive demonstration
Exploring Polar Graphs plots polar graphs of the form
for various trig functions
. What effects do
the parameters
,
,
, and
have on the graph?
Polygon Spirals
Wolfram's interactive demonstration Polygon Spirals creates spirals by connecting vertices of regular polygons which lie on the sides of larger, similar polygons.
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making
mistakes, and having fun."
~ Mary Lou Cook
Student Gallery
Integrating art and mathematics enables students to discover new ways in which mathematics models real-world phenomena, and allows students to engage in positive affective learning experiences in the mathematics classroom. Both fields lend themselves easily to discovery and self-exploration.
Visit each of the galleries listed below to view samples of student work and to download the lesson plans and student worksheets from which they were created.
