Shapes
Create slide presentations showing shapes and symmetry in nature or fractals in nature.
Determine relative
strength of shapes or make designs
with circles.
Use paper models of various 3-D shapes including polyhedra
to demonstrate principles of geometric shapes or to represent crystals.
Note: The 3-D
Drawing and Geometry page provides several additional shape project
ideas.
Angles
Illustrate angles with a bridge building project.
Bubbles
Everybody loves a bubble! Bubbles may be studied at elementary or sophisticated levels involving the refraction of light in beautiful illustrations. You will find many Internet resources on bubbles including bubble formulae for bubbles that can last throughout a math fair.
Tessellations
Many resources are also available on Tesselations. Some especially interesting and useful ones include the following:
The
Geometer's Sketchpad and Tessellations
A tutorial for making
tesselations with a drawing program.
What
Is a Tessellation?
A tutorial for making tessellations.
Tessellations
from Hawaii
Brillliant colors and designs in these tessellations
are inspiring.
Tessellation
Tutorials
Here are some good tutorials and templates for making
tessellations.
Measurement
Procedure
to Make A Seismograph
Step-by-step directions
for a homemade seismograph.
Word Problems
Some project ideas may come from word problems. For challenging questions check fermi questions, locker problems and traffic jam problems may provide ideas for interesting problem/solution display projects.
Movement
Have your students apply mathematical concepts to these simple moving projects made in elementary schools to become higher level fair projects.
Flight
Students will have fun with projects focussing on plane math. For a more hands on project, individuals or groups could research how the mathematical relationship between the sizes of kite parts affects flight.
Data Analysis
Analyzing data gathered from Internet sources
- Baseball Data
- Weather Data
- Population Data - Note: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to see this data.
MORE DIFFICULT PROJECTS
Eye Opener Series
Eye Opener Series is a collection of Java applets that illustrate and thus help to solve or prove various math problems.
Graphics for the Calculus Classroom
Probability Problems
Discussion of Probability Theory and different problems for practice.
Additional Math Resources
