Arcytech
Site AwardsThis page contains the awards and recognitions that this site has received as well as feedback from actual teachers and students.
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Dear Arcytech: We are pleased to inform you that your site has been chosen as a 'Selected Web Resource' (SWR) on the NCTM/MarcoPolo Illuminations web site (http://illuminations.nctm.org ). Congratulations on creating a great education site that is useful for mathematics teachers. Best Regards, |
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Dear Jacobo,
The Math Forum publishes a newsletter once a week and we have chosen your site, Educational Java Programs to feature in our March 12th issue. Sincerely, |
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Fractals Lesson
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Hello from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse! I've been very
impressed with your applets for generating fractals, especially with
how suited they are to understanding the material. Your site is one
of the selected few that enter the ENC collection of K-12 math and
science sites. Continued good luck in your work! Oct 4, 2001 The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science
Education (ENC) is pleased to present vol. 8, no. 4 of our print and
online publication, ENC Focus : A Magazine for Classroom Innovators.
This issue, New Horizons in Mathematics and Science Education, highlights
a web site from your organization. The Your web site, Fractals : Exploring Its Simplicity, beauty, and mathematics, was a featured resource in this issue. Go to http://enc.org/features/focus/archive/horizons/resources/chaos/0,,330,00.shtm to see the ENC record for this site. Thank you. Pam Bentley; Acquisitions Specialist; ENC |
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Dear Mr. Bulaevsky,
Our compliments on both your technology and your pedagogy. I am writing to tell you that we made a link to you from our Make-a-Fractal exhibit at: http://www.ScienceU.com/geometry/fractals I really must reiterate how impressed I am with your site. Kudos! - --Robert Miner |
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Hello. Your Fractals site is featured in the March issue of the "Top 10 Educational Sites on the World-Wide Web." Learning In Motion publishes the Monthly Top 10 List on our web site for educators and students who are interested in integrating the Internet with their schoolwork. Thank you.Lara Meyer Learning in Motion, Inc. March 4, 1999 |
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This lesson made it to ENC's digital
dozen on October of 2000! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - July 11, 2001 Your web site, Population Growth and Balance, was a featured resource in the vol. 8, no. 3 issue of our print and online publication, ENC Focus : A Magazine for Classroom Innovators. Thank you. Pam Bentley ENC. |
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October 29, 2001 Congratulations, I am pleased to let you know that your site has been chosen to be included in this month's Digital Dozen, a list of exemplary web sites for educators selected by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC). The list is published each month at ENC Online (enc.org). You can see this month's Digital Dozen at http://enc.org/weblinks/dd/. ENC is funded by the United States Department of Education and administered by The Ohio State University. ENC collects both physical and virtual resources useful to math and science educators. As part of our mission to serve educators across the nation, each month we choose a dozen sites to highlight. The sites we select for Digital Dozen must have current and accurate math and/or science content. They must support school improvement efforts and have useful multimedia features or helpful navigation. ENC provides a brief review of the sites chosen and a direct link to the sites. As a result of receiving greater exposure on our web page, you may notice higher traffic to your site than usual. Sincerely, Pam Bentley |
FEEDBACK: The following tables show
actual feedback that Arcytech has received from teachers, students,
and parents for the different applications on this site:
arcy100 -- Book Club with Online Discussions
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| Marci Lanois; K-6 Math Specialist; Oct 9, 2001 | I love your website. I am a K-6 math specialist and
have introduced my teachers to the pattern blocks, base ten blocks, and integer bars. They are thrilled. They especially appreciate the lessons that go with these. Keep up the great work! We are looking forward to the integer bar lessons. My teachers, students, and I thank you. |
| Karen Mitchell, Parent; November 10, 2001 | Dear Jacobo:
Thank you for developing this website. Your dedication to improving education is admirable and appreciated. To the list of firefighters, policemen, and teachers as heroes can be added your name. The online tools are very similar to the tools in my daughter's Montessori classroom. I had been apprehensive about the use of technology in the early years of elementary school. But now I see how this online tool can supplement the physical tools used in the classroom by making them available to a larger number of children at the same time as well as at home. Thank you very much! |
| arcy100 - The Book Club | |
| Teacher | Thank you so much for setting this all up for me. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it! Every student is posting comments and voting. You should be very proud! Thanks for all you do for our school. |
| Librarian | When the students noticed that their comments were actually up there, I saw interesting changes in those who were thinking about fooling around with the messages... they saw it was real ... and really out there. It was great. So, thanks for making an interesting program work successfully! |
| Student | Dear System, I like the way the system works, and hope to come back soon. I enjoy posting my vote for books that I've read and am hoping to write to other people who have read the same books as me. |
| Librarian / Technology Director | I like this idea and the opportunity for students to evaluate books - there are many other activities which could stem from the ratings. The discussions could provide to teachers not only data on popularity of books, but also some general student understanding of content, character development, author point of view, etc. There are endless possibilities. But finally, if participating in the club encourages middle school student to read more than they typically would, it is absolutely worth the space. |
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Teacher; High School; |
Jacobo, I saw your work. It's sooo cool...I just went and played again. I love it. It's beautiful. Showed it to other math teachers and they loved it. |
| Teacher; High School; Houston, Texas |
What an excellent page!!! Great idea. Looking forward to show the teachers in my school. |
| Math Teacher; Univerité du Québec à Montréal |
Congratulations! You did a great job! |
| Math Teacher | I love this site!!! I am very excited to use it in my classroom, provided we have our Internet connection established. I believe you have underestimated the grade levels which this site can benefit. I am a middle school teacher, having taught 6-8 and even the 8th graders need a more visual concept of fractions. Students are afraid of fractions because they do not know exactly what they are. They simply try to remember the algorithms. Thank You for creating this site!!! |
| Home Schooling Parent | Great Web Pages! The system is great and it will be very useful for me and the children I teach at home. Keep up the good work! |
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Math Leadership Doctoral Student; |
As I was playing with your patterns program, I couldn't help but think about the wonderful ways your applet could be used as a basis for a variety of learning activities in which students could participate without direct teacher instruction. |
| Teacher; Math K-12 teacher training; Graduate
School of Education; George Mason University; Fairfax, Virginia |
Your pattern block applet is great! You have a real
talent for putting applets together! I plan to use it with my preservice
teachers. -- and later -- My classes loved the pattern block applet. They had great discussions about the use of virtual vs. real pattern blocks. My LD licensure students (learning disabilities) really thought it was great for some of their students that can't flip or rotate objects. They usually can push a mouse and click buttons. (I had not thought about the implications for disabled students.) |
| Math Teacher; Middle School |
My students really enjoyed this program. Not only did it reinforce their recognition and knowledge of properties of shapes, it was an excellent way to strengthen their mental math and spatial sense skills as they reviewed basic concepts on fractions. |
| Sheri Hargus; Home Schooling; Bellevue, Washington | Thank you for sending the pattern block files and the information on how to run the applet. It all works great and my four kids are so pleased to have it. Now when they run out of real blocks they can work with these virtual ones! Kudos for a great job on the applet and many thanks for sharing it. |
| Math Teacher; Middle School |
My students really enjoyed this program. Not only did it reinforce their recognition and knowledge of properties of shapes, it was an excellent way to strengthen their mental math and spatial sense skills as they reviewed basic concepts on fractions. |
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Maky de Armas |
I teach math to first and fifth grade gifted students. They all adore your site. I find that even my fifth graders still enjoy working with pattern blocks. These activities are challenging and very helpful to have them actually learning and experimenting in such a creative way. Thank you for sharing. |
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| K12 Teacher; Bloomington Minnesota |
I had a technology meeting this morning and accessed your site. I used it with m y class this afternoon, using the Base 10 Blocks activities. We all absolutely loved it! It is fantastic!!!! Thank you!! |
| K12 Teacher; Eugene, Oregon |
I've only logged an hour on this site so far, but
this is one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet in some
time. I plan to use it with my first graders next week. Thanks, Bill Deese |
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Margo Lynn Mankus; |
This base 10 block applet is wonderful. Teachers,
students, and parents will have access to base 10 blocks without having
to own them or take them home! I love the idea that a piece can be broken apart and glued together. If a student needs 89, they can pull up 8 longs (10) and 9 units (1) or they can pull out a flat (100), break it up so that they can use 90, next break a rod so they can just use 9! They just have to send 21 to the recycle bin. You can't do that with the physical blocks. I have used multilinks in the past to do this type of problem solving, now I can just have students use the virtual blocks!! The different background mats; grid, powers of 10, decimals, and The xy axis make this applet very versatile. This is going to be a powerful addition to the learning about our base 10 system and more. Thanks Jacobo, you did it again! |
| Carla Prokop; 4th grade Teacher; Fairfax
County, Virginia |
I love your website! We used the base ten blocks to teach regrouping and the students loved it. Thanks for the wonderful resource. |
| Integer Bars (or Cuisenaire Rods) Java Applet | |
| ???; Urbana, Illinois |
This is a great site, my math class and I have learned a lot and had bunches of fun!! Thanks |
| Kim | Hello, I would like to thank you immensely for building this site, it is awesome! I am enrolled in a class that teaches me how to teach math and it is nice to have access to movable manipulatives online. By chance do you know of any sites that explore geoboards? Thanks again. |
| Dr. Sylvia Taube; Sam Houston State University; Huntsville, TX |
Million thanks! We (methods students and myself) just
found this site today as we prepare to develop our first lesson plan.
I have asked students to look for a website that can enrich their lesson.
The program is easy to use--we love it! Your contribution to helping us prepare better teachers is most appreciated. |
| Jane Gnojek; Teacher; Lawrence, KS |
Sir: I teach remedial math in an elementary school in Lawrence, KS and am absolutely thrilled to have found your Java applets on Place Value, Pattern blocks, etc. They are extremely well done sitesand I have passed the address on to the other math people in my school. I also visited the Fractal site yesterday. Incredible!! I learned more about fractals and understand it better than I ever have! I would like to have the key words, if that's okay. I have some students that would love to explore this. |
| K12 Teacher; Minnesota |
This is a fantastic teaching tool. I used it with my third graders working on fractions and equivalent fractions. I was able to use this and students followed with the blocks and their own paper. It was an excellent teaching tool. Thank you so much for publishing this free site! |
| Tim W.; Teacher; Oct 2, 2001 | Hi. Thank you so much for putting this site together.
This is a wonderful site that helps all students understand numbers
better. I am currently teaching my students place value and have found
your site to be an excellent supplement to the curriculum. I realized
that this would be great for teaching adding and subtracting using borrowing
and carrying.
Again, I would like to thank you for such a great site! |
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| Teacher; Inst. of Astronomy; University of Tokyo; Japan |
This is one of the most interesting and instructive web pages I have ever visited. I would like to use it as an auxiliary teaching material for my students. |
| Teacher | Amazing program !!! I am driven by the discovery of
finding new resources to teach technology and I will share this program
with my friends and collegues. -- and later -- I had a great time using your educational java progam, this site makes the internet worth having. I'll send you more positive feedback in the future, Once again thanks! |
| High School Teacher; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania |
I think this page certainly deserves the praise as one of ENC's "digital dozen". I would love to try this with students. |
| High School Teacher; Whitehouse, Texas |
I am an algebra II teacher at Whitehouse High School, Whitehouse, Texas (Just outside Tyler, Tx.). I would like to use this program for my classes. This is exactly the program I need to introduce fractals and the use of imaginary numbers. Keep up the good work. |
| Anonymous | Yours is one of the most interesting, educational sites I have ever visited. |
| Student | I enjoyed this lesson very much. I was told about fractals today in my math class (while talking with another student) and so when I ran a search for it your site came up. I felt that I learned a lot! |
| Director of Instructional Technology | Great site! I hope that you do not mind if I put your URL in my district website under Math in "Teachers Toolbox". |
| High School Teacher | HI! Two weeks ago, I discovered this site and was thrilled! I think this is the best website I have found on Fractals and I have looked at many! |
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This system is great! I am a Geometry teacher in Florida, and I will be teaching a unit on fractals to the class. These pages will be a wonderful resource! |
| Senior education major; Centenary College; Hackettstown, New Jersey |
Your Webpage is absolutely phenomenal! I am a senior education major at Centenary College and I am completing a Unit Plan on ANIMATION. Thank you very much for creating such a fascinating web-page. |
| Math Teacher; Milton High School; Milton, Wisconsin |
I am so pleased that I found your site -- it is just what I have been looking for to enrich my Algebra II curriculum - I plan to incorporate the activities in a December project and will be happy to send you my students' reactions, etc. Thanks again for providing such a great resource. |
| Math Teacher; Lincoln Middle School; Portland, Oregon |
By far, the best fractal site I have seen for my students - great job! |
| Teacher; Lawrence Hall of Science; Berkeley, California |
Wow-- Your site was heaven sent! It really helped the students understand the concepts of fractals. It is very thorough, and applicable to various age groups. These students were seventh graders and they did well. I am in an Educational Technology Master's Program at Cal State Hayward. We review sites like yours regularly, and yours is the best I've seen for fractals. Thanks so much for your time and effort. |
| Senior; High School Student |
Wow, this is amazing. I am a senior in high school
and I have been trying to re search fractals. All I had found previously
just confused me and got too techni cal too quickly. I was feeling very
frustrated untill I found this site and the wonderful introduction to
fractals. Than kyou for creating something that every one can understand. From Laura |
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Hi Jacobo, thank you soooooo much for the meaning
of fractals it helped sooooooo much. Alex |
| Student | i'm a 9th grade student and am currently working on a project involving fractals. This web page is very insightful and states the information in terms that i can actually understand. Could I please have the key word so I can understand the questions more? I would apreciate it. Thanks. |
| Mary Ann Duke; Passaic Valley; High School Little Falls, NJ |
Thank you for a great website! So many sites are either
too complicated or too juvenile for high school freshmen. This one is
just right! I'm going to use it with my Geometry class, and I would
like to have the keyword to open the boxes, please. Keep up the good work! |
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Cathy Smith; |
I think this is a fantastic website! I am a teacher in a high school in Michigan, and I'll be doing a project on fractals with my kids. I'm going to have them explore them first, then figure out the ratio of areas between iterations, at least with some of the self-similar figures. I think I'll get a presenter for my room to show my kids this website as an introduction to the concept of fractals, and the interactive iterations is phenomenal! Thanks for making this! |
| Arie Uittenbogaard; Leiden, the Netherlands |
Dear Jacobo Bulaevsky, I've just spent an hour on
your site and I find it delicious Especially the Kock Curve applet fascinated
me. Kind regards and the highest respect. |
| Goran Kjellstrom; Retired Assoc Prof in Geology |
I continue to draw inspiration and enthusiasm from your superb site on Fractals! |
| Dan Schuly; Chaos and Dynamical Systems Teacher; Colgate University; Oct 10, 2001 |
Your site is a very good introduction to fractals.
I expecially like the way you allow us to create L-systems of our own
choosing. The interactive tools are quite creative and instructive.
The only suggestion I can give at the moment is to do more! :) More
dynamical systems, more applets to show dimensions, etc. (I know... you have finite time just like the rest of us. :) |
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Arzina Alani; Parent; Oct 26, 2001 |
My son is doing Geometry in Grade 8 in Chapel Hill. They had to do a project on Fractals from their Geometry text book. Your website is incredible! It is a wonderful way to see how something so simple can become so complex. I have never studied Fractals during my schooling and I found it fascinating! You had the best website .... that goes for all of us. You opened a whole new world for me and my family! |
| Margaret; Student; November 21, 2001 | Hi! Your site is amazing, I learned so much. I've been doing research for about two days on Fractals for a school project, so far you're the only one who has not confused me yet. Can I please get the password to open the boxes? Thank you! |
| Stacey Simon; Algebra Teacher; Ohio; November 23, 2001 |
I am very impressed with this site and plan on using it this week. I especially like that it is individualized but still supervised. Could I please get the keyword to open the answer boxes? Thanks! |
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| Teacher; Sagemont School; Weston, Florida |
Wonderful!! Can I get the Keys for this? I teach biology
at Sagemont (a small private school in south Florida) and this would
work perfectly! I am going to use it for my honors class Ariane McKay -- and later -- I used the population lab as an honors assignment for the kids to do. They really enjoyed it. Your lab allowed the more advanced students in my class to recieve more knowledge and understand better. Thanks again! Ariane |
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| 11th and 12th grade Teacher Sarasota, Florida |
What a great site, I have done an activity where they
discover pi, but next time we will use this site to spice it up a little.
Also, I would like the password for the fractal lesson. Thanks, Sarah |
| Margo Mankus | What a wonderful visual and data collecting aid! We used to collect lids from various size cans and roll them along a ruler to collect data on circles. While this is still a good hands on activity, this applet gives a clean and quicker way to collect a lot of data in order for students to make connections. Great activity!!! |
| Steve; Teacher | Hi, I am a seventh grade math teacher and I just finished playing with the pi applet. It is very well written. It was a lot of fun. I will be recommending the use by my department and the students in my classroom. Thanks for your hard work, in my job every little bit of help......helps Thanks! |
| Colleen Brady; Middle School Math Teacher; November 23, 2001 | LOVE IT!! Pi is such a difficult concepts when first presented to students. I followed your lesson and thought it was super. I will definitely use your site in the classroom - Thanks! |
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