Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web.
Instructions
This applet allows you to create the following:
Nets – two-dimensional outlines of three-dimensional shapes, including regular polyhedra, prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones
Graph Paper – coordinate graphs, polar coordinates, logarithmic graph paper
Number Lines – including positive and negative coordinates
Number Grids – hundreds boards and the like
Tessellations – tiling patterns involving triangles, quadrilaterals, and hexagons
Shapes – pattern blocks, attribute blocks, and color tiles
Spinners – up to 16 sectors, with adjustable sizes
yc c on 13 Feb 10Why is the colormatch wheel anything but round? The traditional colorwheel has red in the noon position and proceeds counter-clockwise in twelve hue steps. But in color scheming "some colors are more equal than others". The Unsafe Colormatch wheel attempts to reflect this by overlapping the interesting colors and by putting more contrasting colors on top of less contrasting. The big central block is the base color as specified by the user. First hue step relative to the basecolor is in the 11 o'clock position. Next step is at 10 and so on. The blocks for primary and secondary colors (60 degrees apart) are bigger than the tertiary color blocks. Colors best suited for combining into a color scheme overlap with the basecolor. White and black are included so you can see them together with your colors. This way of arranging the colors may help you judge a color scheme at a glance.
