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How To Measure Distances on a Map using the map scale? What kind of geometrical transformation is applied? This simulation also focuses on cross product, fraction and percentage.
Very clever and user-friendly simulation. Students love it!
How to encourage more creative thinking? Here you have the beginning of an answer.
One landscape - Four seasons - Two hemispheres. Powerfull illustration of a "not-so-easy-to-teach" phenomenon.