Three new Gizmos published!

We're happy to announce that we've added 3 new Gizmos to our elementary mathematics library...

Balancing Blocks (Volume)
Rock Art (Transformations)
Fractions Greater than One (Fraction Tiles)

The Balancing Blocks Gizmo is a cool 3D Gizmo intended to help teach volume of prisms. Students build three-dimensional figures out of cubes, and rotate them to see them from any angle (great spatial-relations practice). As a challenge, can your students build a figure of a given volume that also balances on the tip of a cone?

In the Rock Art Gizmo, students learn about reflections, rotations, and translations, inspired by art found on cliff walls in the American Southwest. The built-in "old paintings" challenge students to use transformations to match ancient paintings.

The Fractions Greater than One Gizmo is the third in a set of three fraction tile Gizmos. (The first two are Equivalent Fractions and Adding Fractions.) Students can make their own fraction tiles using the "Fractionator" and add them. Sums greater than 1 are shown as either improper fractions or mixed numbers.

We hope you enjoy these and find them to be valuable practice for your students!