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            <title>Tower of Hanoi</title>
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            <title>LP Explorer</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=74804</link>
            <description>LP Explorer is a Java applet which enables the simplex method to be applied to a linear programming (LP) problem and the sensitivity of the solution to changes in the problem data to be examined.</description>
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            <title>Percolation Applet</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78419</link>
            <description>Percolation Applet nicely demonstrates concepts associated with site percolation in a two-dimensional square lattice.</description>
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            <title>A Discrete Dynamical System</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76467</link>
            <description>This applet presents the graphical and numerical solutions for a first order, linear, nonhomogeneous discrete dynamical system (DDS) of the form:</description>
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            <title>A System of Discrete Dynamical Systems</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76553</link>
            <description>This applet presents the graphical and numerical solutions for a first order, linear system of discrete dynamical systems.</description>
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            <title>FiniteMath Applets</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86419</link>
            <description>small interactive applets for teaching sets, logic, circuits, codes, counting, probability, and statistics.</description>
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            <title>Lines a Strategy Game (Combinatorics)</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=74405</link>
            <description>Learn math concepts of game theory and search algorithms while playing a game trying to line up five balls.</description>
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            <title>The Prisoner&apos;s Dilemma</title>
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            <description>Provides an interactive version of the Prisoner&apos;s Dilemma, which was developed in game theory and which illustrates the role and importance of trust and cooperation in social structures. Also includes a good exposition (&#1524;Dilemma in Detail&#1524;) of the ideas behind prisoner&apos;s dilemma, development of the game, links to political philosophy, and some of its practical applications (economic exchanges, public goods, nuclear disarmament).</description>
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            <title>Population Changes in a Trout Pond</title>
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            <description>This site is part of the NCTM&apos;s Student i-Math Investigations website.   It uses algebra and discrete mathematics to analyze population changes in a trout pond.  Included are applets for numerical and graphical analysis.</description>
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            <title>Fractals Simulators</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79960</link>
            <description>A series of applets for teaching Fractal Geometry. Includes: L-Systems; Box-Counting Fractal Dimension; Cellular Automata; Iterated Function Systems (deterministic, random, data-driven, and with memory); Pascal&apos;s Triangle; Circle Inversion; Limit Sets of Circle Inversion. The online course materials that go with this applet series is at http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/ . This course is taught to high school math teachers as well as university students.</description>
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